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• Bride of the Sea

  a Novel

  Quotah, Eman,

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  Winner of the 2022 Arab American Book Award for Fiction. An intimate portrait of loss and healing, and, ultimately, a testament to the ways we find ourselves inside love, distance, and heartbreak.

• The Stardust Thief

  the Sandsea Trilogy : Book One

  Abdullah, Chelsea

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  After saving the life of a cowardly prince, Loulie is blackmailed into finding a magic lamp that would save the kingdom, but at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

• Between Two Moons

  a Novel

  Abdel Gawad, Aisha,

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  A deeply moving family story following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.

• Arab in America

  El Rassi, Toufic

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  A graphic memoir where El Rassi examines the prejudice and racism he grew up with while living in a country steeped in Anti-Arab messages.

• Girl Decoded

  a Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology

  El Kaliouby, Rana,

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  In a captivating memoir, Rana el Kaliouby, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist, provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another.

• Love Across Borders

  Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World

  Lekas Miller, Anna, 1990-

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  "Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us."

• If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English

  a Novel

  Naga, Noor,

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  A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender.

• Arabiyya

  Recipes From the Life of An Arab in Diaspora

  Assil, Reem,

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  Arabiyya celebrates the alluring aromas and flavors of Arab food and the welcoming spirit with which they are shared.

• The Arsonists' City

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  After the death of the family's patriarch, the Nasr family returns to their ancestral home in Beirut to save it from being sold off.

• Fugitive Atlas

  Poems

  Mattawa, Khaled

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  In this exquisite poetry collection, Mattawa asks how we are expected to endure our times, how we inherit the journeys of our ancestors, and how we let loose those we love into an unpredictable world.

• Where Jasmine Blooms

  a Novel

  Warah, Holly S.,

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  Exploring the complex political backdrop of the Middle East from a personal perspective, Where Jasmine Blooms travels from the suburbs of Seattle to the villas of Jordan and the refugee camps of the West Bank, on an emotional journey exploring what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Steve Kerr

  a Life

  Howard-Cooper, Scott, 1963-

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  In this definitive biography of the championship-winning basketball player and head coach of the record-breaking Golden State Warriors, an award-winning sports journalist looks at the man and the facets of his unusual life that have made him a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When We Were Arabs

  a Jewish Family's Forgotten History

  Hayoun, Massoud,

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  When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award-winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was Their American Dream

  a Graphic Memoir

  Gharib, Malaka,

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  Malaka's story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream.

• Shubeik Lubeik

  Muḥammad, Dīnā

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  Your Wish is My Command. In this graphic novel debut, Aziza, Nour, and Shokry each make one first-class wish to try and make their most deepest desires come true in the midst of their struggles.

• Harvard Square

  a Novel

  Aciman, André

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  An Egyptian-Jewish Harvard graduate student trying to assimilate into American culture in 1977 befriends an impetuous, loud Arab cab driver and must choose between his dream or his friend.

• Frankenstein in Baghdad

  a Novel

  Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad,

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  What happened to the corpse Hadi was stitching together?

• Learning America

  One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children

  Mufleh, Luma,

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  A visionary leader and gifted refugee activist shows how she grew a soccer team into a nationally acclaimed network of schools by homing in on what traumatized students need to learn and making the school for those most in need.

• The Wrong End of the Telescope

  Alameddine, Rabih

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  "A remarkable, surprisingly intimate tale of human connection in the midst of disaster."--Lawrence Rungren, Library Journal

• Life Without a Recipe

  a Memoir

  Abu-Jaber, Diana,

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  Award-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber continues her story with her cross-cultural struggles and how they shaped her coming of age and her culinary life.