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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Rana Haddad’s take on love and revolution
Earlier this month, Syrian novelist Rana Haddad, author of The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor (Hoopoe, 2018), had a lively and delightful Zoom conversation with Dr Itzea Goikolea-Amiano of SOAS…
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Kay Heikkinen wins Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for ‘Velvet’
The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is awarded to Kay Heikkinen for her translation of the novel Velvet by Huzama Habayeb, published by Hoopoe (2019). Following the sho…
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Moroccan Noir As Emerging Social Critique: An Exploration of Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s ‘Whitefly’ and ‘Bled Dry’
By Angelica Maria DeAngelis Dar Beida (Casablanca) and Tanja (Tangiers)—these two Moroccan cities are thick with atmosphere. They are also, according to the neo-noir novels of the Moroccan author Abde…
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