A Recipe for Daphne
An American-born traveler to one of Istanbul’s oldest communities receives an unexpected welcome in this heart-warming and romantic debut. Fanis is at the center of a dwindling yet stubbornly proud co … continued
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My First and Only Love
The latest novel from renowned Palestinian writer Sahar Khalifeh, a deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes Nidal, after many decades of restless exile, returns to her … continued
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The Girl with Braided Hair
Based on historical events, the lives of two women living centuries apart are bound together by an enigmatic painting in this mesmerizing debut Art historian Yasmine has been working on restoring an u … continued
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Women in Translation Month was held in September this year. But actually it ought to be every month of the year! To embolden the idea and to honor women authors from the Arab world and women translato…
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When “Palestinisation becomes an inbuilt way of thinking and living.”
In a wonderful interview with The New Arab last month, Huzama Habayeb, author of Velvet (Hoopoe, 2019) reflects on Palestinian displacement, personal and collective memory, the portrayal of Palestinia…
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“I wanted to write about a pastry chef who would resurrect that old recipe”
Nektaria Anastasiadou is the 2019 winner of the Zografeios Agon, a Greek-language literary award founded in 19th-century Constantinople. She is the author of the forthcoming novel A Recipe for Daphne…
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