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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“I wanted to write about a pastry chef who would resurrect that old recipe”
Nektaria Anastasiadou is the 2019 winner of the Zografeios Agon, a Greek-language literary award founded in 19th-century Constantinople. She is the author of the forthcoming novel A Recipe for Daphne…
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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…
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“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…
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