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The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran

A mesmerizing tale of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, set against three transformative decades...

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope,...

The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

Page-turning WW2 hidden history masterfully told by award winner Daniel Nayeri. 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one...

Every Spiral of Fate, Book 4

Every Spiral of Fate, Book 4

The highly anticipated fourth novel in the Woven Kingdom romantasy series, brimming with fiery romance, spectacular magic, and breathtaking secrets. At long last, the wedding day has arrived. The Jinn...

These Infinite Threads, Book 2

These Infinite Threads, Book 2

Full of explosive magic, searing romance, and heartbreaking betrayal, this breathtaking sequel to This Woven Kingdom is from Tahereh Mafi, the award-winning and bestselling author of the Shatter Me series....

All This Twisted Glory, Book 3

All This Twisted Glory, Book 3

The highly anticipated third novel in the Woven Kingdom romantasy series, full of powerful magic, searing romance, and heartbreaking betrayal—from Tahereh Mafi, the award-winning and bestselling author of the Shatter...

This Woven Kingdom, Book 1

This Woven Kingdom, Book 1

Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people—Tahereh Mafi’s first in an epic romantasy series inspired by Persian mythology. To all the world, Alizeh is...

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

A tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja...

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home

The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past,...

Forest Euphoria

Forest Euphoria

A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible. Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at...

The River Has Roots

The River Has Roots

The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small...

The Hollow Half

The Hollow Half

A brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza’s searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New...

A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home

A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home

A young Palestinian girl living in diaspora struggles to find her homeland on a map in this gentle and heartfelt picture book. At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked...

Butterfly

Butterfly

Butterfly is the inspiring story of how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning―and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer. When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized...

[…]: Poems

[…]: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2024

From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians. Fady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with,...

Martyr!

Martyr!

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to...

The Coin

The Coin

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags,...

The Persians

The Persians

An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran,...

Good Girl

Good Girl

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—“a stunning coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a...

You Exist Too Much

You Exist Too Much

A novel of self-discovery following a Palestinian-American girl as she navigates queerness, love addiction and a series of tumultuous relationships. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the...

This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration...

Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth

Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth

When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. ‘Are you this?’ she asked, cupping her hand. ‘Or are you this?’ she motioned with...

Mornings in Jenin

Mornings in Jenin

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that does for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from...

Birthright

Birthright

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2020

Abraham’s highly anticipated debut Birthright constructs a dialogue in which “every pronoun is a Free Palestine.” Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work...

Behind You Is the Sea

Behind You Is the Sea

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who...

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2024

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of...

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he...

Atrium: Poems

Atrium: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2012

In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after...

Salt Houses

Salt Houses

Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses by Hala Alyan follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home...

Against the Loveless World

Against the Loveless World

In this “beautiful…urgent” novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle...

The Blue Between Sky and Water

The Blue Between Sky and Water

In the small Palestinian farming village of Beit Daras, the women of the Baraka family inspire awe. Nazmiyeh is brazen and fiercely protective of her clairvoyant little sister, Mariam, with...

Her First Palestinian

Her First Palestinian

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink. Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of...

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country...

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