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Multiple themes, such as women’s place in society, and the beauty and depth of Arabic calligraphy are threaded through this novel which takes place during and after Lebanon’s civil war
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An officer effortlessly slaughters a rival ethnic group before realising he is part of it as well
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A story about a family and the absurdity of civil war written in the magical realism genre
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A Tunisian girl in Baghdad of the 1980s
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Life in a Palestinian village that suddenly becomes a border town in 1948
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A Libyan love story that questions ideas of gender and masculinity