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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl
    They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780593134597 | ISBN 10: 0593134591

    A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.  “I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz
    These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East - by Sabrina Mahfouz

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472282507 | ISBN 10: 1472282507

    ‘Impossible to put down while you’re reading, and impossible to forget about when you’ve finished’ Glamour  After a gruelling job interview where she was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her family background, ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers by Selma Dabbagh (Editor)
    We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers - by Selma Dabbagh (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780863563973 | ISBN 10: 086356397x

    It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women.  We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail
    The Beekeeper of Sinjar - by Dunya Mikhail

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788161299 | ISBN 10: 1788161297

    In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or ens ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif
    Daring to Drive - by Manal Al-Sharif

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471164422 | ISBN 10: 147116442x

    The story of the woman who inspired change with her call for greater freedoms for women.  Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalism took hold in Saudi Arabia. As a young girl she would burn her brother's boy band CDs in the ov ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
    The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria - by Samar Yazbek

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846044885 | ISBN 10: 184604488x

    Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times.  The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell
    A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert - by Gertrude Bell

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143107378 | ISBN 10: 0143107372

    The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.   In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - li ... more

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  • Cover image of book My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution by Diana Darke
    My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution - by Diana Darke

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908323996 | ISBN 10: 190832399x

    How did Syria’s revolution lose its way?   My House in Damascus illuminates the darker recesses not just of Syria’s history and politics, but also its society and secrets. Drawing on the author’s firsthand knowledge of Syria’s many communitie ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk
    The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature - by Remke Kruk

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848859272 | ISBN 10: 1848859279

    Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with the Arabian Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship by Nahla Abdo
    Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship - by Nahla Abdo

    £19.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848139541 | ISBN 10: 1848139543

    Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel.   Working from a framework of Israel as a settler-colonial regime, this important, insightful book presents historical and contemporary comparative approaches to th ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
    A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen - by Freya Stark

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848851924 | ISBN 10: 1848851928

    Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. E ... more

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  • Cover image of book Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
    Overcoming Speechlessness - by Alice Walker

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781583229170 | ISBN 10: 1583229175

    In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palesti ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi
    In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story - by Ghada Karmi

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673681 | ISBN 10: 1844673685

    Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. A gentle humor describes t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadi Ghadirian: Iranian Photographer by Shadi Ghadirian, edited by Rose Issa
    Shadi Ghadirian: Iranian Photographer - by Shadi Ghadirian, edited by Rose Issa

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566387 | ISBN 10: 0863566383

    "Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder."(Shadi Ghadirian) Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
    Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie - by Rachel Corrie

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080509 | ISBN 10: 1847080502

    Rachel Corrie was a young American activist killed on March 16th 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza strip. She was twenty-three years old.  Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie's striking gifts as a poe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman
    Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail - by Marina Nemat

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719562525 | ISBN 10: 071956252x

    Aged sixteen, Marina Nemat was arrested for reasons she didn't understand and taken to Evin, Tehran's notorious prison. Her world was about to change for ever.  Marina was interrogated, tortured and finally sentenced to death. At the last mom ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry
    Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries - by Suad Amiry

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078116 | ISBN 10: 1862078114

    Surprisingly funny, and refreshingly different from any other writings on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's experience of living on the West Bank from the early eighties to the present.  Amiry t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Shoot the Clowns: Taking a circus to the children of Iraq - by Jo Wilding

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480

    'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege. Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more

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