We discuss some of our favorite books from the past year, and some titles we’re excited to get our hands on soon. 

Show Notes
    Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, ed. Zahra Hankir 
    Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, tr. Sinan Antoon
    Palestine + 100, ed. Basma Ghalayini
    Palestine as Metaphor, by Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché
      Room 304 or How I Hid from My Dear Father for 35 Years by Amr Ezzat, tr. Nora Amin and Yasmine Zohdi
    Souls of Edo, by Stella Gaitano, is available from Rafiki Printing and Publishing
    Celestial Bodies, by Jokha al-Harthi, tr. Marilyn Booth; you can watch the clip from their CNN interview on Twitter.
    Sentence to Hope: A Sa’dallah Wannous Reader by Sa’dallah Wannous, tr. Nada Saab and Robert Myers
    Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed
    The Magnificent Conman of Cairo by Adel Kamel, tr. Waleed Almusharaf
    Impostures by al-Hariri, translated by Michael Cooperson

·      In Pursuit of Enayat al-Zayat by Iman Mersal