Published Books

2021

Al-Nabidha
Inaam Kachachi

Inaam Kachachi moves between Palestine and Karachi, between Iraq, Venezuela, and Paris, shifting between time periods and political upheavals...

Walking Like Naomi Campbell
Mahmoud Shukair

Shukair engages his readers skillfully with a sure hand and provides a rare and absorbing view of the daily life of the Palestinians under occupation....

An Acre-esque Tale
Eyad Barghuthy

A unique historical novel about Palestinian society in the 1940s, a society still trying to recover from the trauma of the Great Arab Revolt....

2020

Al-Rasaʾil – The Letters
Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim

For two years, the two Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim exchanged letters that became an invaluable part of modern Arabic literatu...

The Day on Which the Laws of Nature have Changed

Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti, who was 45 years old when the French troops landed in Egypt on July 1, 1798, sat down in real time to document the defining ...

Routine
Mahmoud Shukair

The micro stories collected in this booklet paint an outline of urban routine: from the city’s sculptures, through train cars, to cafés and bars and i...

On being a refugee and laundry lines
Rajaa Ghanem Danaf

Poems that are a women's coming of age journey in landscapes of uprooting, displacement and the refugee experience....

Days of Tanzim
Ayman Agbaria

An elusive play about the liminal areas of Palestinian society in Israel, the seepage between politics and organized crime, and the connection between...

Shlomo the Kurd, Me and the Time
Samir Naqqash

This is a novel about the horrors of the twentieth century, about the Jewish refugee, who wanders from the Kurdish city Sablah, to Bagdad, from Tehran...

2019

Amputated Tongue: Palestinian Prose in Hebrew

The richest and most comprehensive anthology of Palestinian prose in Hebrew. It includes 73 stories by 57 authors who are Palestinian .residents of Is...

Stella Maris
Elias Khoury

Stella Maris is the Haifa-based novel about Adam, a young Palestinian surrounded by remnants of memories that ceaselessly gnaw at his brain as he i...

Luzumiyyat: Breached Obligations and Debts
Abu al-ʻAlaaʼ al-Maʻarri

A selection of Abu al-ʻAlaaʼ al-Ma‘arri’s daring and defiant oeuvre, which includes more than 1,500 poems. Al-Ma‘arri doubted every form of blind b...

ابن رابعة Ibn Rab‛a
`Salman Natour`

With black humor, naiveté, and great compassion, the play tells a story of oppression and survival, of catastrophe and a continuing dream....

2018

The Bridges of Constantine
`Ahlam Mosteghanemi`

“The doctor’s voice, in his fractured French, woke me again. ‘Paint!’ Again and again I saw his white-cloaked figure, parting from me and shaking m...

Year of the Locust: A Soldierʼs Diary and the Erasure of Palestineʼs Ottoman Past
`Ihsan Turjman`

Through this unusual diary, the readers are exposed to a dramatic and formative period in Palestine’s history: the end of the Ottoman Empire, the e...

Time of White Horses
`Ibrahim Nasrallah`

Empires fall, rulers change, and bitter struggles take place between the Turks, the British, Jewish immigrants, and Palestinian leaders, city dwell...

Children of the Ghetto – My Name is Adam
`Elias Khoury`

Adam, the narrator, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel in his fifties who immigrated to New York after giving up the vision of an Israeli state and...