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Huzama Habayeb

Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and destruction of an abusive family life. But now, later in … continued

Guard of the Dead

George Yarak

Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue, stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war, he fled his v … continued

Clouds over Alexandria

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundamentalist movement. Five idealistic students find themsel … continued

Rana Haddad

Donia Kamal

Maan Abu Taleb

Her first novel ‘The Watermelon Boys’ wins big

This week, at the 2019 Society of Authors’ Awards in London, The Watermelon Boys by Ruqaya Izzidien (Hoopoe, 2018) was one of the six winners of the 2019 Betty Trask Awards, bestowed annually by the p…

Translator Marilyn Booth shares 2019 Man Booker Prize with Omani writer Jokha Alharthi

In January of this year, when Omani author Jokha Alharthi’s novel Celestial Bodies, translated into English by Marilyn Booth, was longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, the veteran tr…

“I treat my writing time as a job”

This month Ruqaya Izzidien’s The Watermelon Boys (Hoopoe, 2018) was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize and Awards. When the news reached her, the young Iraqi-Welsh writer tweeted: “Dizzy, tearful,…