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