History of Ash
An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, brutality, and resistance as told through the first-person prison narratives of a man and a woman History of Ash is a fictional prison account … continued
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A Stranger in Baghdad
LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this intergenerational drama set against a background of p … continued
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Suleiman’s Ring
An enchanted ring brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player in this compelling novel combining elements of magical realism with political history Can one man or a mere ring alter the events of one … continued
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Sherif Meleka talks about ‘Suleiman’s Ring’
Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to write about an enchanted ring which brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud…
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‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’— a 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize winner
On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by the award-winning novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, published by Hoopoe in 2022, is…
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‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’ shortlisted for 2022 Banipal Prize
The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Egyptian author Hamdi Abu Golayyel, translated by Humphrey Davies, is among the three shortlisted works for the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Tra…
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