Hoopoe Fiction

  • In the Spider’s Room

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    A sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt and Winner of the 2019 Prix de la Litté§»ature Arabe

    Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo’s Tahrir Square when a heavy hand

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Abdelnabi, Muhammad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 9774168755
    • Language: English
  • A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me

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    Spring, 1990. After years of searching in vain, a stranger passes a scrap of paper to Zina. It’s from Aziz: the man who vanished the day after their wedding almost two decades ago. It propels Zina on … [more below]

    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Fadel, Youssef
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: April 15 2016
    • ISBN10: 9774167546
    • Language: English
  • No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

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    WINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE

    In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from “one of the rising stars of Arab fiction” (New York Times)

    Irre

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Khalifa, Khaled
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 15 2016
    • ISBN10: 9774167813
    • Language: English
  • The Longing of the Dervish

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    At the close of the nineteenth century, freed slave Bakhit is let out of prison with the overthrow of the Mahdist state in Sudan. On the brink of death, the memory of his beloved Theodora is all that … [more below]

    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Ziada, Hammour
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 15 2016
    • ISBN10: 9774167880
    • Language: English
  • Velvet

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    Winner of The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
    Winner of the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

    A novel of enormous power and great beauty, in which a Palestinian woman

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Habayeb, Huzama
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: September 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 9774169301
    • Language: English
  • The Jinn Daughter

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    A stunning debut novel and an impressive feat of storytelling that pulls together mythology, magic, and ancient legend in the gripping story of a mother’s struggle to save her only daughter

    Nadine is

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Hanna, Rania
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 274
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 164903363X
    • Language: English
  • The Girl with Braided Hair

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    WINNER OF THE SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

    LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

    The lives of two women

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Adly, Rasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 332
    • Publish Date: November 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 9774169875
    • Language: English
  • A Stranger in Baghdad

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    NAMED ONE OF ’51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023′ (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD

    In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Loudon, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 444
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1649032854
    • Language: English
  • Gaza Weddings

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    From the author of Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee

    Twin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tel

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Nasrallah, Ibrahim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 12 2017
    • ISBN10: 9774168445
    • Language: English
  • The House of the Coptic Woman

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    A Notable African Book of 2023 (Brittle Paper)

    Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bonfire

    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: El-Ashmawi, Ashraf
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 10, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1649032544
    • Language: English
  • The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine

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    A rich, sweeping novel of Palestine with the Nakba at its heart, by an acclaimed author

    Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drov

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Ashour, Radwa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 414
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 977416900X
    • Language: English
  • Gold Dust

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    “Imagine Cormac McCarthy’s savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel.”–The Independent

    Gold Dust is a

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Al-Koni, Ibrahim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: March 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 9774169697
    • Language: English
  • My First and Only Love

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    A deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes by acclaimed writer, Sahar Khalifeh, called “the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian literature” (B?senblatt)

    Nidal, after many dec

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    • Series: Hoopoe Fiction
    • Author: Khalifeh, Sahar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 20 2021
    • ISBN10: 9774169832
    • Language: English
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