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Fear in the Middle of a Vast Field and Other Stories
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
Short stories by a celebrated playwright bare the horrors of the Syrian civil war.
I Want Golden Eyes
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in this sci-fi novel in translation.
Thunderbird
Book Three
By Sonia Nimr; Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
The third book in a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to save the world.
I Saw Her in My Dreams
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A powerful novel about interpersonal and systemic violence, examined through the lens of a relationship between an anxious middle-class Omani artist and the Ethiopian domestic worker she hires.
Thunderbird
Book Two
By Sonia Nimr; Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world.
My Heart Became a Bomb
By Ramy al-Asheq; Translated by Levi Thompson
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A powerful collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq that gives voice to the complexity of exile in our contemporary world.
A Bed for the King's Daughter
By Shahla Ujayli; Translated by Sawad Hussain
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King’s Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine women’s agency and the decline of modern
Wûf
By Kemal Varol; Translated by Dayla Rogers
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
A metaphorical love story that grapples with memory, storytelling, and vengeance in a time of war.
Dying in a Mother Tongue
By Roja Chamankar; Translated by Blake Atwood
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
This vivid and lyrical collection introduces English-language readers for the first time to one of the most acclaimed Iranian poets of her generation
Using Life
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
Internationally acclaimed Egyptian author Ahmed Naji won the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award after his imprisonment on charges of “violating public morals” with this dystopian novel of life in modern Cairo.
Limbo Beirut
By Hilal Chouman; Translated by Anna Ziajka Stanton
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
This groundbreaking work of Arabic fiction, now translated into English for the first time, explores how young adults in Lebanon experienced the violent clashes between Hezbollah militants and Sunni fighters in 2008.
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