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Apple Cake and Baklava

The Confines of the Shadow

The Confines of the Shadow is a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation ...

The Clash of Images

Twilight in Jakarta

The novel, a depiction of social and political events in the capital during the run-up to a natio...

Libyan Twilight

Libyan Twilight is a short memoir that discusses the forgotten Jewish community of Libya. As a ch...

African Titanics

African Titanics is the untold tale of the African boat people and their desperate exodus to the ...

Translating Libya

Part anthology and part travelogue, Translating Libya presents the country through the eyes of si...

Zainab

Zainab, a name which aptly reflects the beauty of this tale's protagonist is also the title of th...

The Travels of Ibn Fudayl

The Travels of Ibn Fudayl is a satirical tale written in the style of an academic who has transla...

The Tongue of Adam

In the beginning, there was one language-one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an ...

Chewing Gum

With its satirical and semi-journalistic style, Chewing Gum is an existential quest to understand...

Hurma

Denied her voice, even the freedom to ask questions, al-Muqri's ill-fated heroine remains nameles...