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 com … continued
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The Butcher of Casablanca
A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify his victims. Fear sp … continued
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The Magnificent Conman of Cairo
Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Malim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Malim stumbles across a stash of m … continued
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A conversation with Sinan Antoon
Earlier this month, in a live chat, Hoopoe author Sinan Antoon spoke with Joshua Ralston, Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations at University of Edinburgh, about the Iraqi writer’s four novels, includi…
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“Doubt and uncertainty are always with me now.”—Youssef Fadel
“It is the first time that death has taken on a concrete aspect, in faces, gestures, and words. We are all in the same boat, all equal before death, which was previously more distant and abstract. Now…
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Denyse Woods reads from her novel ‘Of Sea and Sand’
Denyse Woods is an Irish novelist based in Cork, author of Of Sea and Sand, published by Hoopoe (2018). Set in Oman, it is her sixth novel. Born in Boston and raised all over the place, Woods’s other…
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