English

Faces in Transition, 1920–1950

Portrait Photographs from Isfahan

Parisa Damandan

Shumaisi

Turki al-Hamad

Conversations with Nazik Yared

The Art of Rawas

Mohammad Rawas

Stories and Scenes from Mount Lebanon

Mahmoud Khalil Saab

Blackpop

Shaheen Merali

Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel

Masoud

Masoud Banisadr

A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists and Free Officers

The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq

Hanna Batatu

Divine Beauty

Icons

Richard Temple

Light Years

Secrets of the Bible People

Kamal Salibi

The Middle East in the Age of Economic Reform

Politics From Above, Politics From Below

Eberhard Kienle

Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna

I Put a Spell on You

Wendy Buonaventura

A Novel

Adama

An Introduction to Arab Poetics

Ali Ahmad Said Esber

The Belt

Ahmed Abodehman

A Cage Without Bars

Ibrahim Yared

Baghdad Diaries

Nuha al-Radi

(1850–1939)

Secularism and the Arab World

Nazik Saba Yared

Turquoise

Aamer Hussein

Journey Through the Wilderness

Moris Farhi

Arabia Without Sultans

Fred Halliday

A Practical Guide

English-Arabic/Arabic-English

Basil Hatim

Genghis Khan

Michael Hoang

A Study in the Sociology of Modern Arabic Literature

The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse

Sabry Hafez

Children's Book

Biography or Memoir

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Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

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Egypt

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Algeria

Türkiye

Iran

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Art and Art History

Environment, Health, and Science

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Religion and Spirituality

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<p>Saqi Books is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.For over three decades, we have offered an independent platform for writers and artists from around the world, releasing cutting-edge, ground-breaking works including The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf, Beyond the Veil by Fatema Mernissi, Black Britain: A Photographic History by Paul Gilroy and The White Family by Maggie Gee.We are also proud to bring out in English translation the best in new and classic Arabic literature, including works by Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis and Nawal El Saadawi.Saqi Books has two imprints. The Westbourne Press is committed to releasing engaging works that offer an alternative, progressive perspective on the leading issues of our time, and Telegram publishes new and classic international writing.Saqi was awarded the IPG Diversity Award in 2013, the Arab British Culture and Society award in 2008 and the British Book Industry Award for Diversity in Literature in 2009.Providing books on the Middle East since 1978In 1978, lifelong friends André Gaspard and Mai Ghoussoub resettled in London as a result of the Lebanese civil war and founded the Al Saqi bookshop. They yearned to recreate something of the heady intellectual freedom of pre-war Beirut, and to supply a then-untapped market for English and Arabic books on the Middle East and North Africa. The bookshop became a leading light of multicultural London during the 1980s, known for procuring books banned across the Arab world. Today, Al Saqi Books remains a treasure trove for readers from all walks of life.André and Mai began publishing English-language works as Saqi Books in 1983. Five years later, a sister company Dar al Saqi was founded in Beirut to release in Arabic seminal titles of philosophy, Western thought and social theory, as well as original works of fiction by leading Arab authors who were often unable to get published in their own countries. Today multi-award-winning Dar al Saqi is one of the most prestigious publishing houses in the Arab world, publishing over a hundred titles a year.Over the past thirty years, through releasing innovative and seminal works about the Middle East, North Africa and beyond in English and Arabic, Saqi has become a byword for the development and promotion of Middle Eastern culture. Our efforts to bring censored works and authors into the light are an important contribution to keeping the range of Middle Eastern writing diverse, alive and provocative. The inclusion of minority authors among our lists helps, we hope, to demolish cultural barriers that might otherwise reinforce political or geographic ones.</p>

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