Saqi Books
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By: Barakat, Joanna
Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art
$49.95HardcoverAdd to cartFor centuries, Palestinian women wrote the stories of their lives and land with a needle and thread. Their embroidery, or tatreez, inspired hundreds of artists who reinterpreted and transformed it int
- Author: Barakat, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1849250812
- Language: English
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Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration
$18.95HardcoverAdd to cartWhoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons.
In this lyrical enquiry, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. She traces the rich herita- Author: Al-Dujaili, Dalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1849250715
- Language: English
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By: Jahshan, Elias
This Queer Arab Family: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn Arab culture, tradition often dictates an individual’s role in a family, with personal desires subsumed in favour of unity. So, what happens when Queer Arabs challenge and re-imagine these expectat
- Author: Jahshan, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 184925088X
- Language: English
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By: Muna, Mahmoud
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cart‘A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.’
Shamsaddin al-Dimashqi, geographer (1256-1327)
This was Gaza. A place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and
- Author: Muna, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1849250693
- Language: English
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By: Gaafar, Reem
A Mouth Full of Salt
$21.95PaperbackRead moreThe Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away.
A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterio… [more below]
- Author: Gaafar, Reem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 086356772X
- Language: English
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By: Adonis
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95PaperbackRead moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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Two Women in One
$14.95PaperbackRead moreBahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong t… [more below]
- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 086356691X
- Language: English
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By: Alshaer, Atef
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
$23.95PaperbackRead moreA Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pa
- Author: Alshaer, Atef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863569900
- Language: English
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By: Mahfouz, Naguib
The Quarter: Stories
$14.95HardcoverRead moreMeet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambl… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863563759
- Language: English
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By: Rutledge, Ian
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00HardcoverRead moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
$16.95PaperbackRead moreIt is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire’s historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too
- Author: Thompson, Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0863564828
- Language: English
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By: Kaabour, Marwan
The Queer Arab Glossary
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartA groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activists, The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kin… [more below]
- Author: Kaabour, Marwan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 086356092X
- Language: English
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After Zionism
$17.95PaperbackRead moreAfter Zionism brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the most pressing issue of our time. In essays that challenge our assumptions, distinguished contributors with distinct and diverg… [more below]
- Author: Loewenstein, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569412
- Language: English
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By: Selma Dabbagh
We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartArab women have been the subject of male fantasies and myths about the East for centuries, while for many within the Arab world today, women who confess to sexual pleasure are still taboo. But Arabic … [more below]
- Author: Dabbagh, Selma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 086356397X
- Language: English
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By: Halasa, Malu
Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran
$19.95PaperbackRead moreJina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the streets, uncovering their hair, burning headscarv… [more below]
- Author: Halasa, Malu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0863569722
- Language: English
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By: Elias Jahshan
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis ground-breaking anthology features
the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some
internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find
heart-warming conne… [more below]- Author: Jahshan, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 086356478X
- Language: English







