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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 and from Bombay, until his immigration to Israel, and the feeling of exile that continues to haunt him until his dying day.
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 Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and the Palestinian Diaspora
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 is bounced off the walls of existence in the Jewish state of the 1960s.
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 belief and challenged the social and political conventions of his day as well as the then current conventional form of Arabic poetry.
Ibn Rab‛a
Salman Natour
בהומור שחור, בתמימות ובאנושיות רבה מספר המחזה סיפור של דיכוי ושל הישרדות, של אסון ושל חלום נמשך.
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 my hand. ‘Paint!’ ”
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 events of World War One and its ramifications, and the beginning of the new social and political era
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 dwellers and villagers. All serve as a backdrop to the Palestinian Iliad, made up of horses that are created in a flurry of emotions, people who are born from the dust rising under the horses’ shod hooves, and stories orally transmitted from generation to generation.
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 is torn between Arabic, the mother tongue into which he was born, and Hebrew, which he chose as his father tongue. His life, which winds between crossed linguistic and artistic identities, led him along a bumpy path until his unexpected death.
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.
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…?” Elias Khoury poses this question in Entanglements of Secrets, an elusive novel, some of whose characters also appear in the novel by Marquez.
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 uprooted following the massacre and the brutal war raging in their region.
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, the homeland, and memory.