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The Butcher of Casablanca

Abdelilah Hamdouchi

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

The Magnificent Conman of Cairo

Adel Kamel

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

Gold Dust

Ibrahim al-Koni

Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure … continued

Ibrahim al-Koni

Rana Haddad

Donia Kamal

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…

“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…

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…