Americas

Rabih Alameddine (1959-, Lebanon/ USA) – Koolaids: The Art of War (1998). This English-language novel is set in San Francisco…

Salwā Bakr’s (1949-, Egypt) – Kūkū Sūdān Kabāshī (‘Kuku Sudan Kabashi’, 2004). When a young Mexican travelling to Egypt in

Ilyās Khūrī (1948-, Lebanon) – Majmaʿ al-Asrār (‘Complex of secrets’, 1994). Following the massacre at Mount Lebanon, the Lebanese family

Lina Meruane (1970-, Palestine / Chile) – Volverse Palestina (2014, English trans. Becoming Palestina, 2013). This novel narrates the story

Rīnīh al-Ḥāyik (1959-, Lebanon) – Rasāʾil min Kanadā (‘Letters from Canada’, 2012). When her surgeon husband is shot in his

Muʿīn Basīsū’s (1927 – 1984, Palestine) play Maʾsāh Jifārā (‘Guevara’s tragedy’, 1969) centers the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and

Līnā Hūyān al-Ḥasan (1977-, Syria) – ʾAlmās wa al-Nisāʾ (‘Diamonds and women’, 2014). Describing multiple generations of female Arab exiles,