Saqi Books
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Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art
$49.95 Add 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
$18.95 Add 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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This Queer Arab Family: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
$21.95 Add 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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Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
$21.95 Add 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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A Mouth Full of Salt
$21.95 Read 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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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read 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
$14.95 Read 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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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
$23.95 Read 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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The Quarter: Stories
$14.95 Read 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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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read 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
$16.95 Read 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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The Queer Arab Glossary
$22.95 Add 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
$17.95 Read 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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We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers
$21.95 Add 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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Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran
$19.95 Read 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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This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
$21.95 Add 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
