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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Three Hoopoe novels on the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Shortlist
Three novels published by Hoopoe last year are among the five works selected for the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Shortlist. They are A Shimmering Red Fish Swims wit…
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Ibrahim Nasrallah wins 2nd Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction
Poet, novelist, and Hoopoe author Ibrahim Nasrallah won the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction for the second time, in the category of the published novel, for his novel A Tank under the Christmas Tree,…
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“It’s quite a title, ya!”
Rana Haddad, author of The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor, was invited recently by BBC Radio presenter Amanny Mo for a Instagram Live on her coffeeandconvowithamannymo. The two women talked abo…
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