English

A Photographic History

Black Britain

Paul Gilroy

Nobody’s Home

Dubravka Ugresic

From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

The History of Bosnia

Marko Attila Hoare

Jamilia

Chingiz Aïtmatov

The Origins of the Druze People and Religion

Philip K. Hitti

Short Stories by Indian Women

Katha

Urvashi Butalia

Kalakuta Republic

Chris Abani

The Sultanate’s Struggle for Supremacy

Oman’s Insurgencies

J. E. Peterson

Al-Adab al-‘Aja‘ibi and the Literature of the Fantastic in the Arabic Tradition

The Imagination Unbound

Kamal Abu-Deeb

Streetwise

Mohamed Choukri

Israel’s War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and its Aftermath

The 33-Day War

Michel Warschawski

Gilbert Achcar

Leaving Beirut

Mai Ghoussoub

Islam and Capitalism

Maxime Rodinson

A Glance into Ottoman Bosnia

Matija Mažuranić

And Other Stories

Insomnia

Aamer Hussein

No Word From Gurb

Eduardo Mendoza

The Taqwacores

Michael Muhammad Knight

Oil and Democracy in Iraq

Robert Springborg

Cairo Stories

Anne-Marie Drosso

The Birds’ Journey to Mount Qaf

Hooda Shawa Qaddumi

A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia

Flag on the Mountain

Ivo Žanić

The Art of Khosrow Hassanzadeh

Tehran Studio Works

Mirjam Shatanawi

Young Turk

Moris Farhi

Short Stories

The Blue

Maggie Gee

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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