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....
Published Books
2021
An Acre-esque Tale
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...
2017
The Children Laugh
Zakaria Tamer
This is a charming short story for children about a tyrannical king and children who disobey him, by the renowned Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer.
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Entanglements of Secrets
Elias Khoury
“Did the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marques know when he wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold that he was revealing the letter’s secret…?” Elia...
I Own Nothing Save My Dreams
An Anthology of Ezidi Poetry in the Wake of a Genocide
This anthology includes poems written in the wake of the catastrophe that befell the Ezidi community in Iraq in August 2014, when its members were ...
Walking on Winds
Salman Natour
The three works by Salman Natour that are brought together here in a novel lead the reader through unfamiliar—sometimes hidden—paths of the country...