Modern Arabic Literature

Gold Dust
Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred...
The Theocrat
The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al...
The Polymath
This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosop...
No One Sleeps in Alexandria
This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians-Muslims and Cop...
The House of Jasmine
On June 13, 1974, Shagara, a low-level employee at the Alexandria shipyard, is charged with tak...
Papa Sartre
After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existen...
Dates on My Fingers: An Iraqi Novel
Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi v...