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The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor

Rana Haddad

Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is … continued

Fractured Destinies

Rabai al-Madhoun

Palestinian–Armenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her daughter Julie has been tasked with Ivana’s dy … continued

Of Sea and Sand

Denyse Woods

Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the jin … continued

Rana Haddad

Donia Kamal

Maan Abu Taleb

“In times of war, family becomes more important as societies become more sectarian.”

Award-winning Iraqi author Sinan Antoon was in France last week for the launch of  the French translation of his novel ‘Ave Maria’, published in English in 2017 by Hoopoe as The Baghdad Eucharist, tra…

‘The Book of Safety’ goes beyond the dystopian fiction label

In his recent review Yasser Abdel Hafez’s novel The Book of Safety, translated by award-winning Robin Moger,  Matthew Chovanec praises the author for writing “a novel that is thoroughly committed to f…

Ibrahim Nasrallah wins 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

The Jordanian-Palestinian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah, author of the two Hoopoe novels, Gaza Weddings and Time of White Horses, and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press) won this year’s Interna…