5 results for 'Radwa Ashour'

Set in the late nineteenth century on a mythical island off the coast of Yemen, Radwa Ashour's tells the poignant story of a mother and son as they are drawn inextricably into a revolt against their...

Winner of the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book Awards All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and...

A "rich and evocative" (Booklist) multigenerational epic set at the collapse of Muslim rule in Medieval Spain, available now for the first time in a new, complete translation It is 1492, and the...

A rich, sweeping novel of Palestine with the Nakba at its heart, by an acclaimed author Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura...

Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first...