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Thuraya: Recipes From Our Family's Kitchen in Jordan

Dive into the heart of Jordanian and Middle Eastern cuisine with " Recipes From Our Family's Kitchen in Jordan."

Nadeem Mansour
Laila

In Laila, Fadi Zaghmout gives voice to the Arab woman to put men in her society on trial.

Fadi Zaghmout
Guapa

A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East

Saleem Haddad
The Bride of Amman

The Bride of Amman, a huge and controversial bestseller when first published in Arabic, takes a sharp-eyed look at the intersecting lives of four women and one gay man in Jordan's historic capital, Amman.

Fadi Zaghmout
Land of No Rain

Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

Amjad Nasser
Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan

The 11 stories in Snow in Amman appearing in this book for the first time in English, depict a wide array of social and feminist issues through a lens at once familiar and surprising, commonplace and yet intensely different.

Ibtihal Mahmood, Alexander Haddad
Pillars of Salt

Pillars of Salt is significant for its bold feminist perspective in Arab literature, shedding light on the intersection of gender, power, and resistance in a deeply patriarchal context.

Fadia Faqir
Cities of Salt

Banned in Saudi Arabia, this is a blistering look at Arab and American hypocrisy following the discovery of oil in a poor oasis community.

Abdul Rahman Munif
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