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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Middle-Eastern Authors

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  • There Are Rivers in the Sky
    Elif Shafak
    Hardcover: 08/20/2024
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
  • The Coin
    The Coin: A Novel
    Yasmin Zaher
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City ...
  • The Lion Women of Tehran
    Marjan Kamali
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop,...
  • The Moon That Turns You Back
    Hala Alyan
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the ...
  • Martyr!
    Martyr!: A Novel
    Kaveh Akbar
    Hardcover: 01/23/2024
     
    A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks ...
  • My Friends
    My Friends: A Novel
    Hisham Matar
    Hardcover: 01/09/2024
     
    A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–...
  • Between Two Moons
    Aisha Abdel Gawad
    Paperback: 05/07/2023
     
    Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the ...

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