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Hata Matla Al Fajr: An eyewitness account of Egypt before the fall of Mubarak (2010-2011)

This collection of lively political satires and essays represents some of Bilal Fadl’s most important work in the three years leading up to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

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Out of It

Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a young, clever Palestinian – has been smoking dope on the roof watching it happen when he gets the email he has been desperate for: he’s won a scholarship to London.

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Reflections on Islamic Art

Twenty-seven leading writers and thinkers reflect on and celebrate the riches of Islamic art in a visually stylish volume produced with the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar and edited by Ahdaf Soueif.

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The Tobacco Keeper relates the investigation of the life of a celebrated Jewish Iraqi musician who was expelled to Israel in the 1950s. Having returned to Iraq, via Iran, the musician is thrown out as an Israeli spy. Returning for the third time under a forged passport, he is murdered in mysterious circumstances.

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Baynama Yanam Al Alam

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.

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Gulf Women

This groundbreaking collection of fifteen essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world, as well as the history of Muslim women. The result of a project aimed at finding sources and studying the history of women in the region, the articles are presented thematically and chronologically, starting with ancient history, and moving on to the medieval, early modern and contemporary periods.

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Matloob Arees

Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf. She wants to fall in love and find her faith. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style.

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Saladin

Saladin was an outsider whose life was filled with paradox famous for driving the crusaders out of Jerusalem, and becoming the most powerful man in the Islamic empire, he died penniless, without enough money to line his coffin.

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Lan Akrah

The extraordinary story of a Palestinian doctor who, despite witnessing the death of three of his daughters in the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January 2009, continued his medical and humanitarian work, with the aim of bringing the people of the region together in peace.

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