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Please replace the wreaths. Author's name: Mazen Haidar On a rainy winter day in 1985, Amina and Farid left their home in the Baydoun neighborhood of Beirut for the nearby Ain al-Rummaneh district, heading to visit Barjis, the skilled tape recorder expert. Only Barjis...

Thunder Child Author's name: Ghada Al-Khoury Who is that giant perched on her shoulders? Why did this black monster choose her over all others in the village? Why does it paralyze her limbs and tongue and only disappear when thunder comes and lifts her...

Narenja ⁩ Author: Jokha Alharthi   In her exile in the land of snow, "Zohour" relives the unfulfilled dreams of her grandmother. There, fate brings her together with "Suroor" and her sister "Kohl," and "Omran," Kohl's husband who fled his field in Pakistan. A...

Weeds Author's name: Dima Abdullah The novel, which was awarded by the jury of the ninth Lagardère Prize for Arabic Literature, begins in a school playground in Beirut during the civil war in 1983, as the shelling intensifies and families rush to retrieve their...

black milk Writing, motherhood and harem Author's name: Elif Shafak Black Milk is not just a journey through postpartum depression or the autobiography of a creative mother whose pen stopped producing words when she gave birth to her child. Rather, it is an experience...