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Striking a deal that initiates a woman’s fight for freedom. -
A Moroccan family copes with unexpected tragedy. -
An intimate conversation about past relationships -
A narrative journey across times and places -
A thrilling and subtle historical novel about Italy’s invasion of Libya -
Traces the history of a city through its scents -
The true story of an illegal immigrant’s harrowing journey -
A realistic yet fantastical journey into post-revolutionary Cairo -
A postmodernist retelling of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis set in present-day Morocco -
A timely portrayal of human life under late capitalism, in a world simmering with lust and fear -
The tragic life of a female writer in 1960’s Dubai -
An exquisite scream of clever rage at the contemporary moment -
Rimbaud seen through the eyes of his Abyssinian lover -
A journey into Bedouin life and history in northern Syria -
An officer effortlessly slaughters a rival ethnic group before realising he is part of it as well -
A view onto the richness of Sudanese Arab and African cultures through an encounter between a warrior and his healer -
The reminiscences of a Lebanese intellectual haunted by the loss of his two lovers -
A marginalised Algerian neighbourhood tells one last tale
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