Arab & Middle Eastern
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A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
$28.99 Add to cartFive Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea with this harrowing and moving true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
On October 28, 2015, a boat- Author: Carstensen, Jeanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083140
- Language: English
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Daughters of Palestine: A Memoir in Five Generations
$22.99 Add to cartFrom Palestine to Texas in 100 years, this epic family tale follows five generations of Christian women as their family’s intimate dramas–full of hope, fear, grief, and joy– play out against a backd… [more below]
- Author: King, Leyla K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0802884997
- Language: English
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The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World
$44.95 Add to cartA deeply personal exploration of family, empire, art and identity – from the author of Potential History
Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, h- Author: Azoulay, Ariella A?sha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804293113
- Language: English
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My Beautiful Sisters: A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women’s Soccer Team
$29.00 Add to cartArgo meets The Bookseller of Kabul in this incredible memoir from the Afghan women’s soccer pioneer turned activist and feminist icon who has helped save more than 350 female soccer players from the d… [more below]
- Author: Popal, Khalida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 080654452X
- Language: English
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All the Parts We Exile
$25.95 Add to cartFrom a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to one’s truest self.
The youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Cana- Author: Nozari, Roza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1039007066
- Language: English
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The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile
$27.95 Add to cartAn urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts to kidnap him
In Islamabad in 2018, Pa
- Author: Siddiqui, Taha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 155152953X
- Language: English
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I’ll Tell You When I’m Home: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cartThe rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and t… [more below]
- Author: Alyan, Hala
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 198218258X
- Language: English
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The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
$29.00 Add to cartA brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza’s searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New Y… [more below]
- Author: Aziza, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222431
- Language: English
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Pendar
$19.99 Add to cartPENDAR – A MEMOIR OF COURAGE, HEARTBREAK, AND PERSEVERANCE
A young family’s world is turned upside down after the Iranian revolution leads to a bloody war. Young 12-year-old Pendar learns that children
- Author: Malek, Pendar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1637774362
- Language: English
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Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman
$20.00 Add to cartA Palestinian Woman’s dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home.
I may not be brave enough, but somewhere deep inside of me there is, perhaps, the kernel of someone who is. That- Author: Nuseibeh, N. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 162371687X
- Language: English
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Memories: An Oasis in Time
$17.99 Read moreThe story of Kamel Abu Jaber (1932-2020) is in some ways the story of the modern day Kingdom of Jordan. In this short and sweet collection of memories, Kamel recounts his tribal past, being a Christia… [more below]
- Author: Abu Jaber, Kamel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1843919893
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
$17.00 Read moreA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.
After de- Author: Shahalimi, Nahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 059347290X
- Language: English
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La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore… [more below]- Author: El Ghadbanah, Banah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 195053944X
- Language: English
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Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
$25.95 Add to cartUprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child and a stern, disinterested gra… [more below]
- Author: Burdock, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1637790368
- Language: English
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Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France
$29.95 Add to cartThe end of a journey, the beginning of a new life
–I’m Syrian, and I got here from Turkey. –Whoaaa! That’s a hell of a trip!
–You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago. After- Author: Toulme, Fabien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1637790317
- Language: English
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When the Fudge Trees Bloom
$18.00 Add to cart“My mother’s land has a million fudge trees on it,” my husband told me. I giggled and pointed out his mistake, but he brushed it aside. His English was good, but delightfully imperfect. How could he m… [more below]
- Author: Rouhana, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1954779895
- Language: English
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Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
$17.99 Read moreIn this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family’s fascinating history, coming to terms with trauma and desire.… [more below]
- Author: El-Ariss, Tarek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1635424461
- Language: English
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Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan.
Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby
- Author: Mohseni, Saad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0063299801
- Language: English
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-cen
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1635425239
- Language: English
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From Hamas to America: My Story of Defying Terror, Facing the Unimaginable, and Finding Redemption in the Land of Opportunity
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan, as he breaks away from his culture’s practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to fina… [more below]
- Author: Hassan Yousef, Mosab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1637633181
- Language: English
