World Literature - Middle East - General

  • The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

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    A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran.

    1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He te

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    • Author: Bazyar, Shida
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1964992109
    • Language: English
  • Hyper

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    A cutting, hypermodern saga of money, family, and survival for fans of Zadie Smith, Patricia Lockwood, and Mohsin Hamid.

    On the eve of the 1979 Revolution, Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of Kurdistan’s

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    • Author: Ismaïl, Agri
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 1566897475
    • Language: English
  • The Coin

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    A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control o[more below]

    • Author: Zaher, Yasmin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646222768
    • Language: English
  • Huddud’s House

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    A haunting contemporary novel, longlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction, Huddud’s House is a rich tale of love in the time of war, based in the storied city of Damascus.

    How far is lov

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    • Author: Azzam, Fadi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1623711150
    • Language: English
  • The Coin

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    Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize
    Shortlisted for the Swansea Dylan Thomas Prize
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

    A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as

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    • Author: Zaher, Yasmin
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646222105
    • Language: English
  • Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda

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    Omar, a young Palestinian in Gaza’s largest refugee camp, spends his life searching for his long-vanished father, aided by his loyal friend, Ahmed. Omar soon finds himself precariously tangled in the … [more below]

    • Author: Masoud, Ahmed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1682571033
    • Language: English
  • A Nearby Country Called Love

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    A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting

    Amid the alley

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    • Author: Abdoh, Salar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593653920
    • Language: English
  • The Baghdad Villa

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    A young Iraqi woman watches her family life collapse amid the country’s political turmoil, turning to the seven world-famous paintings hanging in her family’s Baghdad villa to make sense of the chaos [more below]

    • Author: El-Hetti, Zuheir
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 1623717906
    • Language: English
  • Poison in the Air

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    The final novel from one of Lebanon’s greatest writers and narrator of Lebanese life.

    Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy’s final novel, chronicles the decades of social, political, and economic turmoi

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    • Author: Douaihy, Jabbour
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 162371754X
    • Language: English
  • Where the Wind Calls Home

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    In this new novel by Syria’s most prominent writer of the National Book Award Finalist Planet of Clay, a wounded nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian Army remembers his life lived in the traditiona[more below]

    • Author: Yazbek, Samar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 194
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1642861359
    • Language: English
  • Glass Cedars

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    Twenty-year-old Maya is given one hour to pack one suitcase and flee her home in war-torn Beirut, leaving behind everyone and everything she knows and loves. She rebuilds a new life in Los Angeles, an

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    • Author: Feghali, Katherine Saad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 426
    • Publish Date: April 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798889266839
    • Language: English
  • Mother of Strangers

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    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR – Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love … darkly humorous and touching” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story durin[more below]

    • Author: Amiry, Suad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593466942
    • Language: English
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