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Mercury Blobs
By: Sylvia Petter
A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. Short and shorter stories that "are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they a...
Back Burning
By: Sylvia Petter
Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction Sylvia Petter s collection flings the reader across the globe in its bold exploration of love, death, passion, relationship, and family. Echoing her own life experience, Sylvia Petter...
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed
By: Ahdaf Soueif
From the best-selling author of The Map of Love, here is a bracing firsthand account of the Egyptian revolution—told with the narrative instincts of a novelist, the gritty insights of an activist, and the long pers...
The Map of Love
By: Ahdaf Soueif
Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fall...
The Great American Family: A Story of Political Disenchantment
By: Weam Namou
Winner of Eric Hoffer Book Award “We came here for America’s freedoms,” Weam Namou writes. “As an immigrant, I saw through the Dawn Hanna case how we are losing the very things we came here for...
A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-First Century
By: Ali Shakir
A memoir and meditation on faith, A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-first Century tells a story of transformation and reflection as the author thoughtfully but pointedly deconstructs the...
Kisses from a Distance
By: Raff Ellis
Kisses is an award winning literary memoir that follows the turn of the 20th Century American immigration experience to of two destitute Lebanese families. The tale begins in 1885 with the abduction of the author's g...
Esperanza
By: Karim Fadali
Passion, a dead-end marriage, a guilty mother, a lost son, a haunting dream, a strange mural, an isolated village, two broken hearts, an old man traveling with the wind, and a great deal of magic are some of the colorful...
Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
By: Ghada Karmi
Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine, where would...
Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh
There is no more compelling and dramatic unfolding story, with more profound international ramifications, than the conflict in the Middle East. Sharing the Land of Canaan is a critical examination of the core issues of t...
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