The Missing Liver
by Ahmed Naji Sex, drugs, and electro-shaabi music: a vivid and off-kilter collection of stories by Egyptian author Ahmed Naji. “Ahmed Naji confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime.” —Zadie Smith
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And the Family Devoured Its Men
by Dima Wannous A family portrait of great tenderness and pain, and a precise and glittering look at what it means to lose home, told in Wannous' concise and luminous language.
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Shushuya
by Bassam Altaji, illustrated by Charlotte Shama A charming and beautifully illustrated picture book about little boy and his imaginary friend: a gentle dragon. Shushuya is a dragon, and Shushuya is my friend. He’s beautiful and very large With scales from end to end.
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Against the Tide
by Taghreed Najjar A thrilling middle grade novel, inspired by the true story of a young Palestinian girl who became Gaza’s first fisherwoman.
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