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Struggling to pick your next book over Ramadan? The New Arab has compiled a guide of must-read Muslim stories from across the literary spectrum.
From across the literary spectrum, Sarah Shaffi picks her favourite reads for you to delve into during the month of Ramadan.
The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human
Book Club: Marguerite Richards' anthology of global Muslim voices is a honest recollection of the human experience. From chaos to peace, subjugation to freedom, the 34 personal essays reveal all.
Of Necessity and Wanting: A kaleidoscopic portrayal of Karachi
Book Club: Sascha Akhtar's novel is a collection of interconnected short stories about three different women set in Pakistan's ...
Silence Is a Sense: War, migration, trauma and healing
Book Club: Silence Is a Sense is a poignant and profound story of a Syrian refugee left so traumatised by war and migration ...
Exploring generational trauma with The Arsonists' City
Book club: The Arsonists' City is a gripping novel about an Arab-American family facing its trauma and demons after taking a reluctant trip to Lebanon
We Are Bellingcat: The emergence and growth of OSINT
Book Club: We Are Bellingcat details an insider's account of the emergence and growth of OSINT and new forms of citizen ...
Red Line: The use of chemical weapons in Syria
Book Club: Joby Warrick's new book takes a detailed look at the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the ...
Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea
Book Club: Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea is a truly striking debut that explores Middle Eastern-immigrant story in a delicate ...
Book Club: Michael Kenney's The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network uses a social ...
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Sonia Nimr's Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands
Book Club: Sonia Nimr's fantastical story reads like a series of folktales in which the circles of life come together when the ...
Ahmet Seyhun's Competing Ottoman Ideologies
Book Club: Ahmet Seyhun's Competing Ideologies in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic tackles the topics of ...
Hoda Barakat's Voices of The Lost
Book Club: Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2019, Voices of the Lost, is celebrated Lebanese writer Hoda ...
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Book Club: Except for Palestine unpacks the exceptional nature of policies toward Palestine in the US.
Is 'European Islam' the future of Western Muslim identity?
Book Club: In his new study, Hashas makes a major contribution to the debate about Muslim identities in Europe by surveying the thoughts of some leading thinkers.
Palestinian exile and resistance: There Where You Are Not
Book Club: There Where You Are Not offers an incredible glimpse into the experience of history as a Palestinian, and as the ...
Muslim boy, 4, referred to Prevent 'after discussing Fortnite'
The boy – from west-central England – was referred to the Prevent scheme in September 2019 after speaking about a game of Fortnite at an after ...
Togo Mizrahi: The stateless pioneer of Egyptian cinema
Book Club: Togo Mizrahi's extraordinary life story and films are unearthed in a new book by Deborah Starr.
Life as a Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi
Book Club: Amrou Al-Kadhi's award-winning memoir is a poignant and moving story about the author's fight to be true to ...
Liberating Palestine: The roadmap to a one-state democracy
Book Club: Jeff Halper argues that the only way to decolonise Palestine is to dismantle Israeli structures of domination and ...
Revolt Against the Sun: When the political is personal
Book Club: Nazik al-Mala'ika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. Revolt Against the Sun ...
The best books by Arab authors in 2020
Book Club: From fiction to insightful memoirs and social commentary, The New Arab rounds up some of the best books written by ...
Hijab and Red Lipstick by Yousra Imran
Book Club: In Hijab and Red Lipstick, Yousra Imran alchemises her trauma into a semi-autobiographical novel that was hard to ...
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