English

Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel

Legacy of Empire

Gardner Thompson

The Quarter

Naguib Mahfouz

Voices from a Divided City

Nicosia Beyond Barriers

Bahriye Kemal

Alev Adil

Maria Petrides

Aydin Mehmet Ali

An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba

A Map of Absence

Atef Alshaer

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Nawal El Saadawi

The First Lady of Modern Turkey

Madam Atatürk

İpek Çalışlar

Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age

Blaise Ducos

Lara Yeager-Crasselt

Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an

Believing Women in Islam

Asma Barlas

A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi‘is

John McHugo

Egypt’s Calligraphic Landscape

Khatt

Basma Hamdy

Noha Zayed

Palestine, Land and People

Nabil Anani

Elsewhere, Home

Leila Aboulela

And Then God Created the Middle East and Said ‘Let There Be Breaking News’

Karl reMarks

Palestine in the Present Tense

Pay No Heed to the Rockets

Marcello Di Cintio

Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans

So Many Islands

Nicholas Laughlin

Dance of the Jakaranda

Peter Kimani

Palestine in Black and White

Mohammad Sabaaneh

Yemen in Crisis

Helen Lackner

Words and Pictures on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door

Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic

Lynn Gaspard

Photographs from the Refugee Crisis

I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See

Giles Duley

British Muslim Women Write

The Things I Would Tell You

Sabrina Mahfouz

The Husaynis 1700–1948

The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty

Ilan Pappe

Calligraphies of Love

Hassan Massoudy

Hereditary Succession, Oil and Foreign Powers

The Gulf Cooperation Council States

Yousef al-Yousef

Children's Book

Biography or Memoir

Nonfiction

Fiction

Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

Palestine

Lebanon

Egypt

Syria

Iraq

Morocco

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Algeria

Türkiye

Iran

Jordan

Sudan

Yemen

Libya

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait

Oman

Bahrain

Art and Art History

Environment, Health, and Science

Gastronomy

Architecture and Urbanism

Business and Finance

Journalism and Media Studies

Literary Theory and Criticism

Political, Cultural, and Social History

Religion and Spirituality

Feminism and Gender

Anthropology and Society

Music

Politics

Psychology

Philosophy

<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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