Maha is a 34-year old Egyptian girl with a varied and international background. She has a mother who lives in Egypt and a brother in Singapore. Her father died some years ago, leaving a gaping hole in her heart. Maha lives in Egypt and has a love-hate relationship with the place. She wishes for two things: One, to leave Egypt. Two, to meet the love of her life and who will keep her "anchored". She is on a quest to find love and attempts to discover it in many different ways. Her bestie, Fu...

From the international bestselling author of The Book of Fate comes the story, based on real events, of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him “dumb.” Young Shahaab doesn’t understand what the word means and thinks it is a compliment, until...

From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, comes a finely crafted collection of short fiction that explores the tensions between remembering past homes and belonging in new ones.Weaving between wistful memories of youthful ambition and the compromises and comforts of age, travelling between the streets of Dar es Salaam and Toronto, the characters in these stories must negotiate distance--between here and th...

“I recommend a book, Little Brother. . . . It makes us understand what the desert crossing is like: the trafficking of migrants, imprisonment, torture, the sea journey" (Pope Francis, quoted in La Civilta Cattolica). This heartbreaking story about an African migrant takes you inside the refugee crisis and is based on the author's own life.Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the eldest son he must leave their home village in the Gu...

This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Dubai. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. Get local information about the must see sightseeing places to visit to help make your trip amazing and memorable. The guide also covers tips on where to eat and drink and what to expect the weath...

Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping 'revolutionary' bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets. But Yamina's children feel differently about life in Paris. They don't always fit in, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether it's too late to change course as he watches the world pass him by from the driver's seat of his Uber. Hi...

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both.‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley’s student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land where the silencing and oppression of women is deeply entrenched, they immediately formed a deep and abiding bond.Shelley saw Shaimaa as her ‘Ro...

Sometimes a book comes along and you wonder why it has not been written before, well, here it is!‘Only in Cyprus’ is a hilarious insight into Cyprus living. Even if you have no intention of living in Cyprus, or to even visit Cyprus, get a unique ‘tongue in cheek’ look at an extraordinary world of chaos. If you are Cypriot or perhaps are of Cypriot origins or you have ever had any connection with Cyprus or even if you don’t even know where Cyprus is, you WILL laugh ...

In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations-old and new-take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty story "Zelda the Halfie" which follows a b...

Rasheed Danjuma, the oldest of the Danjuma brothers is a self-made man. The day his father walked out on them, the wellbeing of his mother and younger twin brothers, became his singular focus. In the same vein, he's also vowed to avoid the complications of love. Decades later, when his father dies, he and his brothers are summoned for the Will reading. An invitation, he declined.When he learns that despite his warnings, his late father's lawyers are harassing his mother, Rasheed's o...

A Sunday Times Best Humour Book of the Year 2017 How can you tell if your neighbour is speaking Muslim? Is a mosque a kind of hedgehog? Can I get fries with that burka? You can't trust the media any longer, but there's no need to fret: Don't Panic, I'm Islamic: Words and Pictures on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door provides you with the answers. Read this book to learn how you too can spot an elusive Islamist. Discover how Arabs (even 21-year-old, largely innocuou...

I was supposed to take over my father’s empire. Instead, I’m being traded into a business deal disguised as a wedding.Zayn Hassan is a billionaire. Charming. Accomplished. Practically perfect.And a complete stranger.Still, I say yes—because that’s what my father expects.But when Zayn leaves town and hands off the wedding to his assistant, River, everything shifts. River is quiet, thoughtful, unexpected funny . . . and the first person who’s ...