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A postmodernist retelling of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis set in present-day Morocco
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A writer caught between two lives, two languages, two women
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The tragic life of a female writer in 1960’s Dubai
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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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Rimbaud seen through the eyes of his Abyssinian lover
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Set in a remote mountain village, under the guise of a murder mystery, myths, illusions, and dreams play out among the villagers
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Syria 2009: political prisoners and asylum seekers live in waiting
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A journey away from religion to sexuality and pleasure
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A love spell that travels across time and space
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Muslim and Jewish Algerians fighting against French occupation
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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 view onto the richness of Sudanese Arab and African cultures through an encounter between a warrior and his healer
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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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The reminiscences of a Lebanese intellectual haunted by the loss of his two lovers
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A marginalised Algerian neighbourhood tells one last tale
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In this novel, the Saudi writer Omaima El Khamis tells a fascinating story that takes place during the 11th century
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A novel of ideas by one of Palestine’s preeminent writers