English

Hereditary Succession, Oil and Foreign Powers

The Gulf Cooperation Council States

Yousef al-Yousef

The Art of Altruism

Koorosh Shishegaran

Hamid Keshmirshekan

A Bilingual Anthology

Classical Poems by Arab Women

Abdullah al-Udhari

Istanbul Istanbul

Burhan Sönmez

The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring

Return to the Shadows

Alison Pargeter

A Concise History of the Arabs

John McHugo

Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life

Native

Sayed Kashua

Song For Night

Chris Abani

Relapse in the Arab Uprising

Morbid Symptoms

Gilbert Achcar

The Hungry Ghosts

Shyam Selvadurai

Sufism and Surrealism

Ali Ahmad Said Esber

1500 Years of Arabic Literature

Desert Songs of the Night

Suheil Bushrui

James M. Malarkey

The Battle for Iraq, 1914–1921

Enemy on the Euphrates

Ian Rutledge

Virginia Woolf in Manhattan

Maggie Gee

A Recent History

Syria

Art and Culture from the Frontline

Syria Speaks

Malu Halasa

Zaher Omareen

Nawara Mahfoud

A Cookbook

The Azerbaijani Kitchen

Leyla Rahmanova

Tahir Amiraslanov

The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Zealot

Reza Aslan

While the Shark is Sleeping

Milena Agus

A Society in Transition

Why Yemen Matters

Helen Lackner

Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages

The Sultan’s Sex Potions

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Daniel L. Newman

The Budapest Protocol

Adam LeBor

New Perspectives

Contemporary Iranian Art

A Photographic History

Asian Britain

Florian Stadtler

Susheila Nasta

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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Morocco

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Tunisia

Algeria

Türkiye

Iran

Jordan

Sudan

Yemen

Libya

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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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