New and Current Titles 2016

NEW AND CURRENT TITLES 2016

BLOOMSBURY

QATAR FOUNDATION

PUBLISHING

ENGLISH TITLES

NEW RELEASES 2

HIGHLIGHTS 10

COMING SOON 22

ARABIC TITLES

NEW RELEASES 32

HIGHLIGHTS 46

COMING SOON 54

BACKLIST 58

BLOOMSBURY

QATAR FOUNDATION

PUBLISHING

NEW AND CURRENT TITLES 2016

THE BAMBOO STALK

SAUD ALSANOUSI

THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF OBJECTS

MAI AL-NAKIB

TELEPATHY

AMIR TAG ELSIR

BITTER ALMONDS

LILAS TAHA

BLACK BOOK OF ARABIA

SHEIKHA HEND AL QASSEMI

THE HOLY SAIL

ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD

NEW RELEASESENGLISH

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‘Alsanousi is a voice of conscience.’

– Independent

NEW RELEASES ENGLISH

Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born

in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti

publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi,

and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives in

Kuwait.

The Bamboo StalkSaud AlsanousiOriginal Title: Saq Al-BambooTranslation: Jonathan Wright

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013

• Bestseller in the Middle East

• Powerful and outspoken, this is the book that took the

Arab world by storm

‘Ambitious, cultivated and brave’ – Financial Times

Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work

as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide-eyed

naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when

she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War

growing louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her home

with their baby son José.

Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the

Philippines, José clings to the hope of returning to his

father’s country when he turns eighteen. Will his Kuwaiti

family live up to his expectations?

Alsanousi crafts a captivating saga that boldly deals with

issues of identity and alienation.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927101779

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101786

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 23/4/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

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NEW RELEASESENGLISH

Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD

in English literature from Brown University and teaches

postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait

University. This is her first collection of short stories. She

lives in Kuwait and is currently writing her first novel.

The Hidden Light of ObjectsMai Al-Nakib

• Winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s

2014 First Book Award

• A stunning collection of short stories reminiscent of the

works of Amy Tan, Alice Munro, and Jhumpa Lahiri

‘The old world and the new. The strife in the Gulf. East and

West, Arabic and English, the poetry of the heart, the eye of

the hawk; all these elements produce the lustrous pearls of

Mai Al-Nakib’s short stories.’

– Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Beirut Blues

A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role

in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a

barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the

West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on

his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his

wife.

The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But

if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East

as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage,

pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous

stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of

objects to hold extraordinary memories.

‘An exciting new literary voice’

–National

‘Al-Nakib writes with penetrating insight and such compressed lyricism that at times her prose seems to border on poetry. It’s a densely imagined and beautifully written debut.

– Sydney Morning Herald

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101168

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101144

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 23/4/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

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‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers.’

– Daily News, Egypt

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101892

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118067

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 18/6/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

TelepathyAmir Tag ElsirOriginal Title: TaqsTranslation: William Hutchins

• An elegant, spine-chilling literary novella

• From an author shortlisted for the International Prize

for Arabic Fiction 2011

• A bestselling author in the Middle East

A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary

fantasy and real-life tragedy

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most

idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in

an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never

met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely

death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man

from a similar fate?

Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the

unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own

creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum

– the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken

underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of

insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between

imagination and reality.


Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has

published a number of novels, biographies and volumes

of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having

studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College

of Medicine, he now lives in Doha.

Also

available

in Arabic

p.34

NEW RELEASESENGLISH

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Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by

training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by

choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a

Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the

Gulf War.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927118005

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118012

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 13/08/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

Bitter AlmondsLilas Taha

• Set in Palestine and Syria, a novel about the most

universal emotion of them all: love

• Perfect for all those who loved Mornings in Jenin

In the fight for freedom, will he lose his heart?

Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced

by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find

his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to:

a love that propels him forward and gives him hope.

Nadia is maturing into womanhood in a refugee community

in Damascus. She tries hard to cope with the tough realities

of her world, but is confronted with a cruel load thrust upon

her by a selfish brother. Can she break out of her traditional

social mold to create her own destiny?

Heart-breaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about

displacement and exile, family duty and honor, and the

universal feelings of love and loss.

‘Written with compassion and a keen awareness of matters of the heart, this is a beautiful and moving tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.’

– Ann Weisgarber,Author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, and The Promise


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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927118098

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118104

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 13/8/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

Black Book of ArabiaSheikha Hend Al Qassemi

• Original, witty, and feisty – a delightful new voice

from the Gulf

• A collection of short stories – some light-hearted, some

heart-wrenching, some feminist – all surprising

Lifting the veil on life and love beyond the palace gates

These candid, moving and inspirational tales, based on true

stories, will resonate with readers around the world.

Meet a princess whose best friend literally tries to steal her

wedding, down to her bridal shoes and fiancé; a bride who

mysteriously goes blind on her wedding day and stays blind

for years; a woman whose romantic Parisian honeymoon

proves too good to be true; and a jealous wife who lures her

husband into falling in love with another woman.

A modern day Scheherazade, Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi –

a princess from the UAE – spins fantastic tales of love,

betrayal and heroism from around the Arabian Gulf.

Sheikha Hend Faisal Al Qassemi is Emirati and lives in

Sharjah and Doha. An accomplished artist, successful

entrepreneur, and committed philanthropist, she is editor-

in-chief of Velvet, a high-end fashion and lifestyle magazine

published in Dubai and distributed around the world.

NEW RELEASESENGLISH

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Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula

newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has

previously authored The Corsair, also a Bloomsbury Qatar

Foundation Publishing title.

The Holy SailAbdulaziz Al-MahmoudOriginal Title: Al-Shira’ Al-MoqaddasTranslation: Karim Traboulsi

• In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale

of adventure and high treason

• Historical fiction covering a neglected episode of history

• Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf.

In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist…

Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages,

and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is

still unchartered territory…

Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious

fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl

falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes

are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on

securing the profitable spice trade.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous

historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility,

while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah

and Istanbul.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101670

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101687

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 3/12/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

‘The author has brilliantly established a dramatic structure with great political awareness… an excellent historical mind.’

– Al Jazeera

Also

available

in Arabic

p.50

THROWING SPARKS

ABDO KHAL

LAND OF NO RAIN

AMJAD NASSER

THE ARCH AND THE BUTTERFLY

MOHAMMED ACHAARI

BLUE LORRIES

RADWA ASHOUR

JUNE RAIN

JABBOUR DOUAIHY

DAYS OF IGNORANCE

LAILA ALJOHANI

BEIRUT, BEIRUT

SONALLAH IBRAHIM

GOLDA SLEPT HERE

SUAD AMIRY

WHERE PIGEONS DON’T FLY

YOUSEF AL-MOHAIMEED

ENGLISH HIGHLIGHTS

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992179093

E-PUB ISBN: 9789992194287

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 13/3/2014

RIGHTS: WORLD EXCEPT

ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘Abdo Khal shines a light on life at the bottom of the heap, in Saudi’s often forgotten villages. His voice blends image-rich poetic classicism with contemporary patois, which makes for an unmistakably Arab mix.’ – Guardian

Born in Saudi Arabia in 1962, Abdo Khal studied political

science and began his career as a preacher before becoming

a primary school teacher. He turned to writing as a way of

attacking the corruption of the wealthy in the Arab world.

Throwing SparksAbdo KhalOriginal Title: Tarmi Bi ShararTranslation: Maia Tabet and Michael K. Scott


• Author is a former fundamentalist preacher, now a hard-

hitting and controversial novelist

• Novel is banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan

A shocking and satirical novel that explores the devastating

effects of limitless wealth

When an opulent palace is built on the Jeddah waterfront,

ambitious Tariq sees a way out of his life of petty crime.

He stares longingly at the huge gates, dreaming of the

luxuries beyond.

But the dream quickly turns into a nightmare. The Palace

is ruled by an enigmatic Master whose influence in the city

is as wide as it is wicked. When Tariq succeeds in being

appointed to serve the Master it becomes clear that he has

been chosen for a single, terrible task.

Years later, Tariq is trapped. He has become no more than

a slave – and there is only one way out.

HIGHLIGHTSENGLISH

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Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written

numerous volumes of poetry and several travel memoirs.

He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and

since 1987 he has lived in London where he is managing

editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily

newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel.

‘An irresistible shape-shifting novel.’

– Guardian

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194584

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101175

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 24/4/2014


LANGUAGE

Land of No RainAmjad NasserOriginal Title: Haythou La Tasqoutoul Amtar Translation: Jonathan Wright

• First novel by a highly-regarded Jordanian poet

• An uncompromising look at the personal and emotional

cost of political exile

‘One of the best books I’ve read in a long time’

– Ahdaf Soueif

Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab

country run by military commanders who treat power as a

personal possession to be handed down from one generation

to the next. The main character was forced into exile from

Hamiya twenty years earlier for taking part in a failed

assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the

Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters

family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love,

but most importantly he grapples with his own self,

the person he left behind.

Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the

hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

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Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet,

short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in

Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. His

work has been translated into English, French, Spanish,

Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second

novel.

The Arch and the ButterflyMohammed AchaariOriginal Title: Al-Qaws Wal-FarashaTranslation: Aida Bamia


• Written by a leading Moroccan writer and political figure

One letter, one morning. And his life was never

the same again.

As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef al-

Firsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single

devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he

believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed

in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance.

Yousif, the son of a Moroccan father and German-born

mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies

that reflect the changing world he lives in. With his world

already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his

wife for another man, Yousif begins to question everything –

including his own values and identity.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992179055

E-PUB ISBN: 9789992195451

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 8/5/2014


ARABIC LANGUAGE

‘An impressive, if bleak, fictional exploration of the roots of Radical Islam

– and the difficulties challenging it’

–Independent

HIGHLIGHTSENGLISH

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Radwa Ashour was an Egyptian writer and scholar.

A long-time professor of English literature at Ain Shams

University in Cairo, she held a PhD from the University

of Massachusetts. Ashour passed away in late November

2014. She is survived by her husband, Mourid Barghouti,

and son, Tamim.

‘An important writer whose exemplary work we need more of in English.’

– Independent

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992194485

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101250

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 22/5/2014


LANGUAGE

Blue LorriesRadwa AshourOriginal Title: FaragTranslation: Barbara Romaine

• One of the most important Egyptian writers of

her generation

• Blue Lorries is a clear and striking voice through three

generations of political struggle in Egypt

One woman’s life. Three generations of defiance.

A tale of Egypt then and now.

Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when

her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father,

a political activist in prison. When he returns home, a

changed man, their little family begins to fracture. Through

her teenage years Nada is surrounded by the language of

protest – ‘anarchism’, ‘Trotskyism’, ‘Communism’.

Through student sit-ins, imprisonments, passionate

arguments, accidental alliances, fallen friends, joys and

regrets, Nada’s story grows into the story of Egypt’s many

celebrated activists.

Moving, uplifting and deeply human, Radwa Ashour’s

masterpiece is the story of Egypt in the second half of the

twentieth century and a paean to all those who choose a life

of activism and quiet defiance.

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

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‘Cries out for an English translation.’ – National

‘A powerful and complex novel.’

– Le Canard Enchâiné

Jabbour Douaihy was born in 1949 in Zgharta, Lebanon.

He is a professor of French literature at the Lebanese

University and has published numerous novels and short

story collections. He lives in Lebanon.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142783

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101311

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 5/6/2014


LANGUAGE

June RainJabbour DouaihyOriginal Title: Matar HzayranTranslation: Paula Haydar

• Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic

Fiction 2006

• Runner-up for the 2014 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary

Translation

‘A poweful novel which one cannot fail to recommend’

– Etudes

On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern

Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath

of the massacre, the town is split in two. But lives once so

closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neigbours turn

into enemies, and husbands and wives are forced to choose

between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan.

At the center of this novel is Eliyya, who, twenty years after

emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about

the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre:

the father he never knew.

With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy describes that

fateful Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the

traditions and affections of village life were consumed by

violence and revenge.

HIGHLIGHTSENGLISH

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Laila Aljohani is an award-winning Saudi Arabian writer

of short stories and novels. She was born in the northern

city of Tubuq, Saudi Arabia.

‘[These]… artfully orchestrated ambivalences and moral conundrums power the book and highlight Aljohani’s skill at manipulating emotional responses.’

– National

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992195192

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101281

PRICE: £ 9.99

PUB DATE: 3/7/2014


LANGUAGE

Days of IgnoranceLaila AljohaniOriginal Title: JahiliyyaTranslation: Nancy Roberts

• Award-winning author in her English language debut

A Romeo and Juliet for our times

Medina, Saudi Arabia. A young man, Malek, has been

brutally attacked for being of the ‘wrong’ race.

Malek’s lover, Leen, waits by his bedside and reflects on their

relationship and her life as an unmarried, childless woman.

All around her are voices of judgment and concern; in the

twenty-first century it is still unforgivable, and dangerous,

for a Saudi woman to enter into a relationship with a black

man. In the distance US planes hover over Iraq, primed to

embark on yet another senseless conflict.

Malek’s attacker was Leen’s brother.

Flinging wide a window onto the second holiest Islamic

city – a city in which people observe daily prayers and preach

equality and justice – Days of Ignorance is a novel about

honour, hypocrisy, war and fear. And, glimmering beyond,

beneath and behind it all, love.

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

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After studying at Cairo University, Sonallah Ibrahim worked

as a journalist until he was imprisoned in 1959 for his

political activities. Since his debut prison novel, That Smell,

he has been a full-time writer. He is particularly celebrated

for the way he uses literature to speak out against political

regimes.

‘Ibrahim is a sort of oracle.’

– New Yorker

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194522

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101342

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 11/9/2014


LANGUAGE

Beirut, BeirutSonallah IbrahimOriginal Title: Beirut, BeirutTranslation: Chip Rossetti

• From one of the most important and controversial

Egyptian writers of a generation

• A fascinating insight into the region and some of the

historical reasons of ongoing unrest

A city – known for its light-heartedness, vibrancy and

capacity for fun – is ripped apart by war

November, 1980. An Egyptian writer has chosen the wrong

time to come to Beirut in search of a publisher for his

controversial book. Men with machine guns are on every

street corner. When the writer meets an old friend from

his revolutionary student days, he is introduced to two

fascinating women: idealistic film-maker Antoinette and

Lamia, the seductive wife of his would-be publisher. His

attentions inevitably turn towards the two women, but

the background rumble of strife and struggle becomes

increasingly hard to ignore.

Based on the author’s real-life experience of the civil war in

Lebanon, Beirut, Beirut is an exploration of how, even in the

midst of chaos and violence, universals such as love, desire

and yearning are still always our guiding forces.

HIGHLIGHTSENGLISH

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Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where

she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural

Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia

Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004.

Golda Slept HereSuad Amiry

• Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino

If buildings could tell their stories…

Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of

Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both

Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other

countries of the Middle East.

Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli

doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian

past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments

and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of

Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the

tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between

official histories and private memories. Through poetry

and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost

Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between

remembering and forgetting.‘A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in occupied territories.’

– Observer

‘Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining.’

– Daily Mail

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101465

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101441

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 10/11/2014

RIGHTS: WORLD ARABIC AND

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Praise for Suad Amiry:

Also

available

in Arabic

p.37

HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

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Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is an award-winning writer and

journalist. He has published several novels and short story

collections in Arabic, and his work has been translated into

English, Russian, Spanish and German.

‘Yousef Al-Mohaimeed writes in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez.’

– Washington Post

‘At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia.’– Hanan al-Shaykh, author of A Thousand and One Nights

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992179161

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101373

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 4/12/2014


ARABIC LANGUAGE

Where Pigeons Don’t FlyYousef Al-MohaimeedOriginal Title: Alhamam La Yatiru Fi Buraydah Translation: Robin Moger

• Coming of age in Saudi: not for the fainthearted

• Winner of the 2011 Chebbi Prize, one of the most

respected literary prizes in the Arab world

‘Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is a rising star in international

literature’ – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Where Pigeons Don’t Fly follows the story of Fahd, a young

boy growing up in Saudi Arabia. Fahd’s childhood is

overshadowed by his father’s involvement in the attack on

the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

Now an artist and critic, the adult Fahd finds that, both

in work and in love, he is at loggerheads with repressive

cultural and religious norms. When he and his girlfriend are

detained by the ‘virtue’ police, Fahd contemplates a life of

self-imposed exile in a remote corner of Britain, rather than

remaining somewhere he doesn’t feel he belongs.

CLOUDY DAY ON A WESTERN SHORE

MOHAMED AL-MANSI QANDIL

ALHAMBRA

TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH

IN THE HOPE OF VIRGINS

JAMAL NAJI

KILIMANJARO SPIRIT

IBRAHIM NASRALLAH

AFTER COFFEE

ABDELRASHID MAHMOUDI

MEN DON’T CRY

FAÏZA GUÈNE

A SUSPENDED LIFE

ATEF ABU SAIF

ENGLISH COMING SOON

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‘If I were English like you,’ he said to me as he was dragged away by the police, ‘Would you have treated me this way?’

Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil

was born in the Nile delta. He went to medical school, and

worked as a countryside doctor before turning to literature.

He has published several novels, short story collections and

children’s books. He now lives in Canada.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927118524

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118548

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 28/1/2016


LANGUAGE

Cloudy Day on a Western ShoreMohamed al-Mansi QandilOriginal Title: Yawm Gha’em Fi Al-Bar Al-Gharbi Translation: Barbara Romaine

• A compulsively readable historical yarn evoking

a fascinating period of great archaelogical discovery,

in the vein of Kate Mosse’s ‘Sepulchre’

• Based on historical events and real-life figures

It’s the dawn of the 20th Century, and Britain’s glittering

Empire extends far and wide, full of the dangerously

seductive promise of untapped riches.

Howard is on an expedition to locate Tutankhamen’s tomb

in Egypt. Amidst growing unrest between the tyrannical

British rulers and the so-called ‘barbarians’, he meets Aisha –

a bewildering mix of contradictions whose profile bears

more than a passing resemblance to Nefertiti’s beautiful face

depicted on the Pharaonic relics Howard loves so much.

A Cloudy Day on a Western Shore is a page-turning gallop

through a momentous occasion in recent world history

as well as an exploration on questions relating to national

identity.

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AlhambraTim Mackintosh-Smith

• Fiction debut from a celebrated travel writer

and award-winning documentarian

• For fans of Conn Iggulden and Robert Harris

Terrorists are nothing new.

The year is 1368 and Granada is under threat from violent

extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter

who has had wives and concubines on three continents and

is still searching for the right woman, and his West African

slave Sinan, the one with the brawn, the brains, the looks –

and the demons in his past.

They arrive to find Granada’s labyrinthine palace-citadel, the

Alhambra, nearing its triumphant completion. But Sinan

and Abu Abdallah are drawn into a darker maze, where

inexplicable events and baffling mysteries lie in wait at every

turn and threaten to ruin forever the delicate balance of

Muslim-Christian power in Spain. It’s up to Sinan and his

master to penetrate the terrorists’ cell and neutralize their

horrific weapon, known only as ‘the Remedy’.

And over it all hangs the fate of one of the most famous

gemstones in history: The Black Prince’s Ruby.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927118555

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118579

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 12/3/2016

RIGHTS: WORLD

‘Mackintosh-Smith has all the assets a travel writer needs: erudition, rather subversive good humour and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complex detail in a few telling lines’

– Daily Telegraph

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a British-born, Oxford-educated

Arabist, award-winning travel writer and lecturer. For almost

thirty years his home has been Sana’a. Tim presented a

major BBC documentary series on his experiences walking

in the footsteps of 14th century traveller Ibn Batuttah.

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In the Hope of VirginsJamal NajiOriginal Title: Mawsim Al-Houriyyat Translation: Paula Haydar

• Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the

Middle East

• For all those who loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist

This is no ordinary coming of age story…

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East,

a wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given

news that shakes the very foundations of his existence.

Meanwhile, a twenty-year-old young man is fighting with

the Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn

apart by feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on

a course headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So

begins a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken

by sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different

stages of their lives – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy

missions.

With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and

landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers

from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927118111

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118128

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 21/4/2016

RIGHTS: WORLD

Jamal Naji is a Jordanian novelist of Palestinian descent,

who was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic

Fiction in 2010. He was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian

State 2014 for his narrative writing, the most prestigious

award in Jordan.

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Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah

is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and

photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro

was the first to include participation of an Arab author and

was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab

children in need of medical care.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927118418

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118425

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 5/5/2016

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Kilimanjaro SpiritIbrahim NasrallahOriginal Title: Arwah’ Kilimanjaro Translation: Paula Haydar

• From an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009

• A much-loved bestselling author in the Arab world

Losing another is agony.

But what about when you lose yourself?

A group of disparate individuals, amongst whom two

Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli

bomb strikes, are preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.

They have nothing – and everything – in common.

Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America,

the characters test the limits of their physical and emotional

strengths to prove to themselves that they can transcend

their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected.

Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of

adventure, as well as ode to the resilience of the human

spirit.

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Abdul Rashid Mahmoudi is an Egyptian poet, writer,

translator and academic. He studied philosophy at the

University of Cairo and University of London. Mahmoudi

has published many academic works, as well as poetry, short

stories and a novel. After Coffee is his second novel.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927118302

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118319

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 21/7/2016


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After CoffeeAbdel Rashid Mahmoudi

• Winner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Award

• Dark humour, experimental prose and a peppering

of classical Arabic narrative

Egypt is a grand museum from farthest north to the deepest south,

yet we are so rich that we hardly notice our wealth

Medhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuffling between

various farming families in the beautiful province of

Ismailia, north of Egypt.

What was intended to be a brief visit for the five-year-old to

Cairo ended up being the beginning of a nomadic life no

one could have imagined for him. Mehat’s journey takes

him across the many landmarks of Egypt and beyond, all

the way to Vienna where he discovers that his feelings of

displacement still haunt him at the core.

In a narrative that interweaves aspects of Egyptian folklore,

epic prose and classical literature, Mahmoudi skillfully

presents the conflict between the man in exile who reflects

longingly on his history and origins, and the village boy who

belonged nowhere.

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927118647

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118661

PRICE: £ 16.99

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The child of Algerian mining immigrants, Faïza Guène

is a novelist and director who grew up in the estates of

Pantin, in the suburbs north of Paris. Aged nineteen,

she became a publishing phenomenon with her first novel

Kiffe Kiffe Demain, which was translated into 22 languages

and sold in 27 countries.

Men Don’t CryFaïza Guène Translation: Sarah Ardizzone

• Author is France’s youngest bestselling author

• An incredibly witty, poignant and intimate account of what

it means to grow up in today’s globalised world

In this resonant, exquisitely crafted book, Faïza Guène

delves into the dual heritage of her young French-Moroccan

protagonist who is caught between his parents’ desperation

for him to follow their traditional values and his own

ambition to integrate into the seemingly alluring French

society.

Men Don’t Cry is a colourful portrait of a divided society,

full of contradictions, tensions and humour. It is a coming

of age story that will enthral, challenge and resonate with

readers – wherever they are in the world.

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A Suspended LifeAtef Abu Saif

• Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic

Fiction 2015

• From Palestine’s brightest young literary talent, previously

published in the Guardian and the New York Times

Naim lives in a Gazan refugee camp. A larger-than-life

character who everyone in the camp knows, he runs the only

print shop in the area, where he prints posters of martyred

members of the community. It is his form of protest –

his way of honouring dead friends.

This risky activity makes him a direct target and brings

unwanted attention to the people in a relatively quiet

community who are trying to exist below-the-radar in one of

the most conflict-ridden areas of the world.

At its heart, A Suspended Life is about just that – trying to

reclaim a life that has been suspended, frozen – temporarily

or indefinitely – by war.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789927118487

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927118517

PRICE: £ 16.99

PUB DATE: 28/8/2016


‘Atef Abu Saif dares to write about Gaza from an angle quite apart from the news bulletins . . . He is defying the unitary narrative that the media have associated with Gaza.’

– Mourid Barghouti Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza

Strip, the eldest of 14 children. He still lives in Gaza, where

he teaches Political Science at the University of Al-Azhar.

His writing has been published in the New York Times and

in the Guardian.

TAQS

AMIR TAG ELSIR

MAWSIM AL-HOURIYYAT

JAMAL NAJI

AL-ISLAM WA AL-HORRIYA

TARIQ RAMADAN

GOLDA NAMAT HONA

SUAD AMIRY

BAYNA AL-ARDH WA AL-SAMAA’

SOPHIA AL-MARIA

GHAZA TAHTA AL-JILD

SELMA DABBAGH

ARWAH’ KILIMANJARO

IBRAHIM NASRALLAH

WA RADDAT AL-JIBAL AL-SADA

KHALED HOSSEINI

THIQAH

ARIEL DORFMAN

LIMADHA TAFSHAL MU’DHAM AL SHARIKAT AL-SAGHIRA

MICHAEL E. GERBER

QALAM AN-NAJJAR

MANUEL RIVAS

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Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has

published a number of novels, biographies and volumes

of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having

studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of

Medicine, he now lives in Doha.

‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers.’

– Daily News, Egypt

Taqs Amir Tag ElsirEnglish Title: Telepathy

• From an author shortlisted for the International Prize for

Arabic Fiction

• A bestselling author in the Middle East

A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary

fantasy and real-life tragedy.

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most

idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in

an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never

met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely

death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man

from a similar fate?

Elsir takes his readers on a chilling journey through

the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over

his own creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides

of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected,

poverty stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable

narrators, of insane asylums and of the relationship between

imagination and reality.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101885

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 15/1/2015

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927118074

PRICE: £ 6.99

PUB DATE: 23/4/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

Jamal Naji is a Jordanian short story writer and novelist

of Palestinian descent, who was shortlisted for the IPAF

in 2010. He was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State

2014 for his narrative writing. Naji works as head of the

Intelligentsia Centre for Research and Survey in Amman,

Jordan.

Mawsim Al-HouriyyatJamal NajiEnglish Title: In The Hope of Virgins

• A brand new title by a leading Arab author

• Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the

Middle East

An unflinching exploration of life in a region rocked by the

radicalisation of Muslim youth.

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, a

wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given

news that shakes the very foundations of his existence.

Meanwhile, a 20-year-old young man is fighting with the

Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn apart by

feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on a course

headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So begins

a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken by

sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different

stages of their livs – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy

missions.

With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and

landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers

from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

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in English

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Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic

Studies at the Oxford University and also teaches at the

Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is President of the European

think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels.

He is a member of the International Union of Muslim

Scholars.

Al-Islam Wa Al-HorriyaTariq RamadanOriginal Title: What I Believe Translation: Osama El Ghazoly

• Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most

influential people in the world, as well as one of the most

important innovators of the 21st century

A thought-provoking account of modern western Muslim

life written by one of the most respected scholars of Islamic

thought today.

Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar and an

outspoken public figure. This combination has made him

a controversial figure, characterized by both sides of the

spectrum as either too liberal or too radical. In an attempt

to set the record straight, Ramadan lays out his beliefs,

speaking directly to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike.

Ramadan deals with deeply emotional and divisive issues

surrounding perceptions of Islam and those who practice it,

particularly in Europe and the West in general. Using clear

and accessible prose, Ramadan changes the narrative of

immigration, religion, and radicalism into one about human

dignity, multiculturalism and social justice.

‘What I Believe is one of today’s most important books.’

– San Francisco /Sacramento Book Review

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194577

PRICE: £ 6.99

PUB DATE: 23/4/2015

RIGHTS: ARABIC LANGUAGE

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GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101434

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 21/5/2015

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ARABIC LANGUAGE

Golda Namat HonaSuad AmiryOriginal Title: Golda Slept HereTranslation: Ayman H. Haddad

• Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino

Palestine: the Presence of the Absent

In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces

the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and,

through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré

Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.

Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli

doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian

past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments

and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of

Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the

tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between

official histories and private memories. Through poetry

and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost

Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between

remembering and forgetting.

Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where

she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural

Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia

Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004.

‘A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in occupied territories.’

– Observer

‘Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining.’

– Daily Mail

Praise for Suad Amiry:

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Sophia Al-Maria is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her

work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New

Museum in New York, and the Architectural Association in

London. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Five Dials,

Triple Canopy, and Bidoun.

GENRE: FICTION/MEMOIR

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101915

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 30/07/2015


‘[Sophia Al-Maria] offers us an original outlook on ancient ground – what any artist hopes to achieve.’

– New York Times’ Sunday Book Review

Bayna Al-Ardh Wa Al-Samaa’Sophia Al-MariaOriginal Title: The Girl Who Fell to EarthTranslation: Ziad Ziady

• Award-winning filmaker and coiner of the term

Gulf Futurism

With poignancy and humor, Al-Maria shares the struggles

of being raised by an American mother and Bedouin father

When Sophia Al-Maria’s mother sends her away from rainy

Washington State to stay with her husband’s desert-dwelling

Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of

teenage cultural boot camp.

Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle, Sophia is

haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile:

hovering somewhere between two worlds. She embarks on

a complex journey that includes finding young love in the

Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo, and, finally, self-discovery

in the mountains of Sinai.

The Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric

new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the

voyage home.

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Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer based in

London. Her short stories have been included anthologies

published by Granta and International PEN. They have also

been nominated for the International PEN David TK Wong

Award and the Pushcart Prize. Out of It is her first novel.

Ghaza Tahta Al-JildSelma DabbaghOriginal Title: Out of ItTranslation: Kholoud Amr

• Nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011

• An unblinking look at life in Gaza, beyond the headlines

The writing is both literary and accessible, fast-paced,

passionate, exuberant and heart-lurching. We’ll be hearing

much more from Selma Dabbagh – Guardian

Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a young, clever Palestinian –

has been smoking grass on the roof watching it happen

when he gets the e-mail he has been desperate for: he’s won

a scholarship to London. Rashid’s sister, Iman, frustrated

by the atrocities and inaction around her, is beginning

to take an interest in an Islamic resistance group. Sabri,

their intellectual older brother, is working on a history of

Palestine from his wheelchair while their mother pickles

vegetables and feuds with the neighbours.

Out Of It follows the lives of Rashid and Iman as they try to

forge places for themselves in the midst of occupation, the

growing divide between Palestinian factions, and the rise of

fundamentalism. Written with extraordinary humanity and

humour, and moving between Gaza, London and the Gulf,

this book helps to re-define Palestine and its people.

‘Takes us, observantly and deftly, into the lives and feelings of those who live in Gaza and want ordinary lives.’

– Marina Warner, Observer, Books of the Year

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194683

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 27/8/2015


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Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah

is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and

photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro

was the first to include participation of an Arab author and

was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab

children in need of medical care.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927118401

PRICE: £ 6.99

PUB DATE: 10/9/2015

RIGHTS: WORLD

Arwah’ KilimanjaroIbrahim NasrallahEnglish Title: Kilimanjaro Spirit

• From an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009

• A much-loved bestselling author in the Arab world

They all came knowing what they wanted from

the mountain, few knew what the mountain wanted

from them

A group of disparate individuals, amongst whom two

Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli

bomb strikes, are preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.

They have nothing – and everything – in common.

Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America,

the characters test the limits of their physical and emotional

strengths to prove to themselves that they can transcend

their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected.

Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of

adventure, as well as ode to the resilience of the human

spirit.

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available

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‘[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet…’

– New York Times

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101908

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 22/10/2015


Wa Raddadat Al-Jibal Al-SadaKhaled HosseiniOriginal Title: And the Mountains EchoedTranslation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• From the New York Times bestselling author of

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

• An Amazon best book of the month

Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love,

how we take care of one another, and how the choices we

make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving

around not just parents and children but brothers and

sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many

ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and

sacrifice one another; and how often we are surprised by the

actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most.

Following its characters and the ramifications of their

lives and choices and loves around the globe – from Kabul

to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos –

the story expands gradually outward, becoming more

emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan,

and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel,

The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published

in thirty-eight countries. He has been appointed a Goodwill

Ambassador to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee

Agency. He lives in Northern California.

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Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright,

essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He has been

a professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke

University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.

‘From the first page, this slim novel invokes the menace of the former in order to underscore and explore the vulnerability of the latter.’

– The New York Times, Sven Birkerts

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992195789

PRICE: £ 5.99

PUB DATE: 5/11/2015


ThiqahAriel DorfmanOriginal Title: KonfidenzTranslation: Saleh Almani

• Author’s first novel to be translated into Arabic

• Translated by Saleh Almani, one of the best translators

of Spanish-language literature in the Arab world

A passionate treatise on love, repression, and aesthetics

Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in

Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is

accused of working for the Resistance.

The novel follows nine hours of phone conversations

between a woman and a mysterious stranger who seems

to know everything about her and the reasons why she fled

her homeland. As the dialogue progresses, the man tells her

many disturbing things about her and her lover (who may

be in great danger), the political situations in which they are

enmeshed, and his fantasies about her.

Powerful and menacing, Thiqah draws the reader into a post-

modern mystery where nothing – including the text itself –

is what it seems.

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Michael E. Gerber is the Founder of Michael E. Gerber

Companies to help provide small business owners and

entrepreneurs with the advice they need to build a business

that works. The Michael E. Gerber Companies group is fast

becoming the largest and most effective entrepreneurial

development resource of its kind in the world.

‘Gerber loves to exhort people to develop powerful visions for their companies.’

– Fortune Magazine

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194911

PRICE: £ 6.99

PUB DATE: 5/11/2015


Limadha Tafshal Mu’dham Al Sharikat Al-Saghira Michael E. GerberOriginal Title: The E-Myth RevisitedTranslation: Anwar Al Shamy

• Written by the World’s #1 Small Business Guru

An essential guide to success in small businesses

In this long-running business bestseller, Michael Gerber

dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business

and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in

the way of running a business. He walks you through

the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial

infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature

entrepreneurial perspective. He then shows how to apply the

lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a

franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked

distinction between working on your business and working

in your business.

After you have read this book, you will truly be able to grow

your business in a predictable and productive way.

BAYNAMA YANAM AL-A’LAM

SUSAN ABULHAWA

A’DDA’ AL-TAIRA AL-WARAQIYYA

KHALED HOSSEINI

ALFU SHAMSIN SATIA’A

KHALED HUSSEINI

23 HAQIQA YUKHFOONAHA

A’NKA BIKHOSOOS AL-RASMALIYYA

HA-JOON CHANG

AL-SHIRA’ AL-MOQADDAS

ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD

KAL MA’ LIL-SHUKULATA

LAURA ESQUIVEL

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Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of

1967, when her family’s land was seized. She moved to the

USA as a teenager established a career in medical science.

In July 2001, Susan Abulhawa founded Playgrounds for

Palestine, a children’s organisation dedicated to upholding

The Right to Play for Palestinian children.

Baynama Yanam Al-A’lamSusan AbulhawaOriginal Title: Mornings in JeninTranslation: Samia Shanan Tamimi

• This is arguably the first commercial literary work from

a Palestinian voice.

1948: The lives of the Abulheja family are changed forever

when they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in

Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin.

Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch,

we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who

becomes an Israeli soldier; and the other, who as a result

of sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause, becomes

his brother’s unwitting enemy. Amal’s own dramatic story

weaves its way between these strands.

This is a moving and powerful novel that will have an

enormous impact on all those who read it.

‘Abulhawa’s writing shines… Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live.’

– Independent

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142592

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 15/3/2012


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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992178966

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 27/9/2012


‘The Kite Runner is a first novel of unusual generosity, honesty and compassion.’

– Guardian

A’dda’ Al-Taira Al-WaraqiyyaKhaled HosseiniOriginal Title: The Kite Runner Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini now

officially available in Arabic

• Was an Academy award-nominated film which grossed

over $15 million at the US Box Office

Afghanistan in the 1970s: twelve-year-old Amir is desperate

to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend

Hassan promises to help him. What happens to Hassan that

afternoon will shatter their lives…

After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee

to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to

find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him:

redemption.

Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has sold

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN:9789992194065

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 14/3/2013


‘Hosseini’s illuminating book [is] a worthy sequel to The Kite Runner.’ – Los Angeles Times

‘A masterful narrative… He is a storyteller of dizzying power.’

– Evening Standard

Alfu Shamsin Satia’aKhaled HosseiniOriginal Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• 75 weeks on the New York Times paperback fiction

bestseller list

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an

unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry

Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows

between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the

ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take

over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation,

brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in

unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most

daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

The sense of longing evoked in Khaled Hosseini’s novel is

compelling and universal: the passionate search for love,

family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising

future, regardless of the obstacles. This novel transcends

boundaries and illuminates the people and culture of a

region that has been reluctantly thrust into the international

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‘Myth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays.’

– Independent

‘For anyone who wants to understand capitalism… as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.’

– Observer

GENRE: NON-FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194263

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 5/12/2013


Ha-Joon Chang has taught at the University of Cambridge

since 1990. In addition to numerous articles in journals

and edited volumes, he has published seven books and eight

edited books. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief

Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.

His writings have been translated into thirteen languages.

23 Haqiqa Yukhfoonaha A’nka Bikhosoos Al-RasmaliyyaHa-Joon ChangOriginal Title: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Translation: Mohamed Fathy Kalfat

• Award-winning author of Bad Samaritans

One of today’s most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the

biggest myths about the world we live in

This book will turn every piece of economic wisdom you’ve

heard on its head. It reveals the truth behind what ‘they’ tell

you and how the system really works. There’s no such thing

as a ‘free’ market. Globalization isn’t making the world

richer. Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich

ones. Higher paid managers don’t produce better results.

This galvanizing, fact-packed book about money, equality,

freedom and greed proves that the free market isn’t just bad

for people – it’s an inefficient way of running economies

too. Here Chang lays out the alternatives, and shows there’s

a better way.

HIGHLIGHTS ARABIC

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GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789927101700

E-PUB ISBN: 9789927101717

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PUB DATE: 11/11/2014

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Al-Shira’ Al-MoqaddasAbdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

• Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer

• In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale of

adventure and high treason

• Historical fiction covering a neglected period of time and

place in the world

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf.

In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist…

Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages,

and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is

still unchartered territory…

Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious

fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl

falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes

are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on

securing the profitable spice trade.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous

historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility,

while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah

and Istanbul. The Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode

of history that impacted not only the region but the world for

centuries to come.

Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula

newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has

previously authored The Corsair, also a Bloomsbury Qatar

Foundation Publishing title.

‘The author has brilliantly established a dramatic structure with great political awareness… an excellent historical mind.’

– Al Jazeera

Also

available

in English

p.9

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Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City. She began her

career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim.

The publication of her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, in

1990 was one of the major literary landmarks of that decade.

The film based on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel

herself, won several prizes and was a box-office hit.

‘Utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico… (an) exquisite first novel.’

– Publishers Weekly

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992195543

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PUB DATE: 6/11/2014


Kal Ma’ Lil-ShukulataLaura EsquivelOriginal Title: Como Agua Para Chocolate Translation: Saleh Almani

• Has sold more than 4.5 million copies around the world

and has been translated into 35 languages, available for

the first time in Arabic

• Remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more

than a year

Earthy, magical and charming, a tale of family life in turn-of-

the-century Mexico

A highly original novel by one of Mexico’s most important

storytellers, Like Water for Chocolate’s chapters each start

with a traditional northern Mexican recipe. Cooking is

the exclusive means of expression open to the female

protagonist, who doesn’t conform to the limited role that

both society and her family have given her.

Tita is trapped in a destiny predetermined at birth: family

tradition dictates that the youngest daughter must renounce

marriage and devote herself to the care of her mother.

Tita, however, is passionately in love with Pedro, her eldest

sister’s husband.

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Manuel Rivas was born in La Coruña. From novels, poetry,

plays and essays, he covers every genre, varying his stylistic

methods between the colloquial language of the man on the

street in his Galician homeland and a more lyrical tone. His

literature gives voice to the memory of the wounds suffered

by the body, land, and language.

‘I have learned more about the Spanish Civil War by reading The Carpenter’s Pencil by Manuel Rivas than through all the history books.’

– Günter Grass, Nobel Prize of Literature 1999

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194898

PRICE: £ 8.99

PUB DATE: 18/12/2014


Qalam An-NajjarManuel RivasOriginal Title: El Lápiz Del Carpintero Translation: Saleh Almani

• A bestseller in Spain, Qalam An-Najjar has been published

in nine countries

• Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the most

important contemporary Spanish authors

• Winner of the Critics’ Award and the Galician Writers’

Association Award in 1998

‘A strange and haunting novel… a sincere and beautiful

portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history’

– Guardian

Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-

Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca,

the Republican who cheats death in Franco’s prisons, and

Herbal, the illiterate Falangist, and of the unnamed painter

with the carpenter’s pencil, the man who unites them in life

and death.

All are bound together by the events of the Civil War – the

artists and the peasants alike – and all haunted by the power

of the carpenter’s pencil.

MUSHATON YUNADOON IKHWATAHOM

GHASSAN ZAQTAN

ISTAJIB IN DAA’TKA ALJIBAL

MOHAMED GHOZZI

KITAB ALASHYA’

HASHEM SHAFIQ

COMING SOONARABIC

COMING SOON ARABIC

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Mushaton Yunadoon IkhwatahomGhassan ZaqtanEnglish Title: Passing By

• Composed by the winner of the prestigious Griffin Prize

for Poetry 2013, the poems in this collection revolve

around the competing forces of life and death.

Istajib in Daa’tka AljibalMohamed GhozziEnglish Title: Obey the Mountains

• A collection of poems with themes of loss and nostalgia,

authored by one of the most highly-regarded poetic voices

from Tunisia.

Kitab Alashya’Hashem ShafiqEnglish Title: The Book of Things

• Written by a diasporic Iraqi poet, this work deals with the

physical presence of everyday objects in our lives and the

intensity they hold.

GENRE: POETRY

PUB DATE: 24/9/2015

ISBN: 9789927118432

GENRE: POETRY

PUB DATE: 24/9/2015

ISBN: 9789927118449

GENRE: POETRY

PUB DATE: 24/9/2015

ISBN: 9789927118456

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A grim futuristic account of

Egyptian society in the year

2023, Utopia takes readers

on a chilling journey beyond

the gated communities of

the North Coast where the

wealthy are insulated from

the bleakness of life outside

the walls. When a young man

and a girl break out from this

bubble of affluence in order

to see for themselves the lives

of their impoverished fellow

Egyptians, they are confronted

by a world they could not have

imagined.

UtopiaAhmed Khaled Towfik

Translated by: Chip Rossetti

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992142677

E-PUB ISBN: 9789992194300

PRICE: £ 9.99

PUB DATE: 19/9/2011

RIGHTS: WORLD, EXCEPT

ARABIC IN EGYPT

Ahmed, a society

photographer in a celebrated

Cairo nightclub, witnesses a

friend horrifically killed in a

fight between young business

rivals. Forced to escape the

scene of the crime and go into

hiding, Ahmed is ensnared in

a web of cover-ups and crimes.

In this sprawling political

thriller, Ahmed is forced to

confront ruthless players in

a game where the penalty for

failure could be his life.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992142660

E-PUB ISBN: 9789992194294

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 05/09/2011


ARABIC IN EGYPT

VertigoAhmed Mourad

Translated by: Robin Moger

A young Iraqi writer sets

out to become a Hollywood

film-maker, only to end up

as a refugee on the streets of

Paris. Although his dream

of making a film about his

deaf mute father is never

realised, the extraordinary

encounters he has with the

likes of Jean-Luc Godard,

Samuel Beckett and a ghost

from Père Lachaise Cemetery

transform his own story into

a captivating drama more

compelling than anything on

the big screen.

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992142295

E-PUB ISBN: 9789992179031

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 21/2/2011

RIGHTS: WORLD ALL

LANGUAGES

An Iraqi in ParisSamuel Shimon

Translated by: Piers Amodia,

Christina Phillips

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Expelled to Israel in the

1950s, a Jewish Iraqi musician

returns to Iraq only to be

thrown out as an Israeli spy.

Returning for a third time

under a forged passport, he

is murdered in mysterious

circumstances. After arriving

in Baghdad’s Green Zone

during the US-led occupation,

a journalist is determined

to write a story about the

musician’s life and instead

discovers an underworld of

forgers, mafias and militias.

The Tobacco KeeperAli Bader

Translated by: Amira Noweira

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: HARDBACK

ISBN: 9789992142622

E-PUB ISBN: 9789992194508

PRICE: £ 9.99

PUB DATE: 21/11/2011

RIGHTS: WORLD ALL

LANGUAGES, EXCEPT ARABICWritten with extraordinary

humanity and humour,

and moving between Gaza,

London and the Gulf, Out

of It is a tale that redefines

Palestine and its people. It

follows the lives of Rashid

and Iman as they try to forge

paths for themselves in the

midst of occupation, religious

fundamentalism and the

divisions between Palestinian

factions. It tells of family

secrets, unlikely love stories

and unburied tragedies as it

captures the frustrations and

energies of the modern Arab

world.

Out of ItSelma Dabbagh

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781408821305

E-PUB ISBN: 9781408824306

PRICE: £ 12.99

PUB DATE: 5/12/2011

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LANGUAGES

It’s the early nineteenth

century and piracy in the Gulf

threatens global maritime

trade routes. Britain, eager

to reinforce its presence

in the Middle East and

protect its interests, sends

an Englishman to quash the

pirates while persuading

Egypt to join an international

alliance with Oman and

Persia to fight against the

Wahabbis. But Erhama bin

Jaber, a historical figure and

one of the most notorious

pirates in the Gulf, has his

own agenda and his own

vendettas.

The CorsairAbdulaziz Al Mahmoud

Translated by: Amira Noweira

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992194720

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 19/2/2013

RIGHTS: WORLD ALL

LANGUAGES

Also

available

in Arabic

p.39

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Ahmed, a society

photographer in a celebrated

Cairo nightclub, witnesses a

friend horrifically killed in a

fight between young business

rivals. Forced to escape the

scene of the crime and go into

hiding, Ahmed is ensnared in

a web of cover-ups and crimes.

In this sprawling political

thriller, Ahmed is forced to

confront ruthless players in

a game where the penalty for

failure could be his life.

When Lounès is suspended

from school a sequence

of events changes his life.

Innocently caught up in

a heroin deal that turns

ugly, the young man faces a

media-fed storm of prejudice

and protest. Writing with

the tautness and tension of

a thriller, Rachedi observes

as his young hero inspires

and unites otherwise isolated

suburban residents, with

surprising results.

The residential Paradise

projects are only a few metro

stops from central Paris, but

it’s a different world. Doria’s

father, the Beard, has headed

back to Morocco, leaving

behind Doria and her mother.

It seems that mektoub – their

fate – has it in for them, but

Doria will prove that the

‘projects’ are about more

than rap,soccer and religious

tension.

Wazn Al RuhMabrouck Rachedi

English Title: Weight of a Soul

Translated by: Rasha Sabbagh

Ghaddan Kiffe KiffeFaïza Guène

English Title:

Kiffe Kiffe TomorrowGENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142400

PRICE: £ 9.99

PUB DATE: 15/11/2010


ARABIC IN EGYPT

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142417

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 20/12/2010

RIGHTS: WORLD ARABIC

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142431

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 20/12/2010


VertigoAhmed Mourad

English Title: Vertigo

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Set in the early nineteenth

century, during one of the

most important periods

of history in the Arabian

Gulf, this groundbreaking

and exciting novel unfolds

against the backdrop of the

brutal struggle between

the British Empire and the

Wahabi tribes of the Gulf for

control of the area.

9 August, 1945, Nagasaki:

Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one

and in love with Konrad

Weiss, the man she is about

to marry, steps out onto her

veranda, minutes before a

nuclear explosion shatters

her world and everything in

it. Burnt Shadows is an epic

narrative of disasters evaded

and confronted, loyalties

offered and repaid, and loves

rewarded and betrayed.

Amal Abdel-Hakim is a

seventeen year-old Australian-

Palestinian-Muslim trying to

come to grips with her various

identities.It’s hard enough

being cool as a teenager

when being one issue behind

the latest Cosmo is enough

to disqualify you from the

in-group. Try wearing a veil

and talking intimately about

personal issues and you know

you’re in for a tough time at

school in Australia.

Al Thelal al Mohtariqa Kamila Shamsie

Original Title: Burnt Shadows

Translated by: Samia Shanan

Ma Ra’yukom Fi Shakli Al’an?Randa Abdel-Fattah

Original Title: Does My Head

Look Big In This?

Translated by:

Zuwaina Altuwayya

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992178768

PRICE: £ 9.99

PUB DATE: 17/10/2011

RIGHTS: WORLD ALL

LANGUAGES

GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142585

PRICE: £ 7.99

PUB DATE: 27/9/2012


GENRE: FICTION

FORMAT: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9789992142578

PRICE: £ 5.99

PUB DATE: 12/4/2012


Al QursanAbdulaziz Al Mahmoud

English Title: The Corsair

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