Reviews and articles about many of the best books written by authors of Middle-Eastern origin.
Middle-Eastern Authors
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My Friends: A Novel
by Hisham Matar
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return
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Martyr!: A Novel
by Kaveh Akbar
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Dec 2024
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. ...
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There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
Hardcover: Aug 2024
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.
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The Coin: A Novel
by Yasmin Zaher
Hardcover: Jul 2024
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 over her body and mind
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The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
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The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
by Hala Alyan
Paperback: Mar 2024
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.
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Between Two Moons: A Novel
by Aisha Abdel Gawad
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: May 2023
Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.
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In the Time of Our History
by Susanne Pari
Paperback: Jan 2023
Inspired by her own family's experiences following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the entangled lives within an Iranian American family grappling with generational culture clashes, the roles imposed on women, and a tragic ...
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The Wrong End of the Telescope
by Rabih Alameddine
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.
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The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home.
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Aria
by Nazanine Hozar
Hardcover: Aug 2020
Paperback: Jun 2021
An extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution--called a "Doctor Zhivago of Iran" by Margaret Atwood--that follows an orphan girl coming of age at a time of dramatic upheaval.
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Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel
by Ava Homa
Hardcover: May 2020
Paperback: May 2021
The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman's perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer.
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