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Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,010 ratings — published 1966
أولاد حارتنا (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 32,397 ratings — published 1959
عزازيل (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 52,528 ratings — published 2008
ثلاثية غرناطة (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,050 ratings — published 1994
ساق البامبو (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 60,656 ratings — published 2012
Impasse des deux palais (Poche)
by (shelved 42 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,357 ratings — published 1956
عائد إلى حيفا
by (shelved 42 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 27,783 ratings — published 1969
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.23 — 336,915 ratings — published 1923
رجال في الشمس (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,734 ratings — published 1963
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,883 ratings — published 800
The Broken Wings (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 29,436 ratings — published 1912
الحرافيش (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 21,256 ratings — published 1977
يوتوبيا (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 59,699 ratings — published 2008
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,674 ratings — published 2002
The Thief and the Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,045 ratings — published 1961
رأيت رام الله (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,237 ratings — published 1997
الطنطورية (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 29,526 ratings — published 2010
الخبز الحافي (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.57 — 11,750 ratings — published 1973
زمن الخيول البيضاء (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,398 ratings — published 2007
شيكاجو (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 22,870 ratings — published 2007
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,904 ratings — published 1947
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 20,949 ratings — published 2013
ذاكرة الجسد (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,790 ratings — published 1993
ليالي ألف ليلة (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,326 ratings — published 1979
ميرامار (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,353 ratings — published 1967
Celestial Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.41 — 18,204 ratings — published 2010
Le Jardin du passé (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,922 ratings — published 1957
ثرثرة فوق النيل (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,923 ratings — published 1966
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.52 — 57,414 ratings — published 2006
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.25 — 34,170 ratings — published 1975
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,667 ratings — published 1988
Le Palais du désir (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,636 ratings — published 1957
موت صغير (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,040 ratings — published 2016
أفراح القبة (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,026 ratings — published 1981
العبرات (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,790 ratings — published 1915
يوميات نائب في الأرياف (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,492 ratings — published 1937
الأيام (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,951 ratings — published 1927
واحة الغروب (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,934 ratings — published 2006
الشحاذ (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,231 ratings — published 1965
الأسود يليق بك (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.62 — 65,084 ratings — published 2012
كليلة ودمنة (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,323 ratings — published 750
فوضى الحواس (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,105 ratings — published 1997
أرض البرتقال الحزين (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,746 ratings — published 1962
بداية ونهاية (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,663 ratings — published 1949
قمر على سمرقند (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,171 ratings — published 2004
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.28 — 21,443 ratings — published 2005
في قلبي أنثى عبرية (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 63,435 ratings — published 2012
Gate of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,690 ratings — published 1998
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,170 ratings — published 1957
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,356 ratings — published 1999
“Barbie”
Through my many long travels I’ve seen women reading books on planes, buses, and trains…
Over the years, three titles caught my eye, each in the hands of women who looked—or tried to look—like the Barbie doll.
I don’t recall the exact names, but one was along the lines of ‘How to Keep Your Husband’ or ‘How to Preserve Your Marriage.’
The second warned of ‘Signs He’s Cheating on You,’
and the third promised how to get rid of him—and move on.
It felt as if these three titles mapped out the lifecycle of every woman who lets herself play Barbie.
And I often wonder: wouldn’t reading ‘How to Stop Playing the Barbie Role in Love and Life’ be enough to solve all the problems those books claim to fix?
[Original poem published”
―
Through my many long travels I’ve seen women reading books on planes, buses, and trains…
Over the years, three titles caught my eye, each in the hands of women who looked—or tried to look—like the Barbie doll.
I don’t recall the exact names, but one was along the lines of ‘How to Keep Your Husband’ or ‘How to Preserve Your Marriage.’
The second warned of ‘Signs He’s Cheating on You,’
and the third promised how to get rid of him—and move on.
It felt as if these three titles mapped out the lifecycle of every woman who lets herself play Barbie.
And I often wonder: wouldn’t reading ‘How to Stop Playing the Barbie Role in Love and Life’ be enough to solve all the problems those books claim to fix?
[Original poem published”
―
“Departure"
Everyone wants to leave— those here long to be there, and many there ache to return here…
There are some who’ve grasped that living is impossible neither here nor there— so they search, in vain, for alternatives.
Few have come to understand that this impossibility of living stems not from geography, but from complicity.
Most who stay or go never part ways with their surrender and quiet compliance— and so they recreate, everywhere they settle, the same conditions and reasons for departure.
Few have realized that all places will remain unlivable as long as the urge to leave is born from a complicit, defeated self…”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
Everyone wants to leave— those here long to be there, and many there ache to return here…
There are some who’ve grasped that living is impossible neither here nor there— so they search, in vain, for alternatives.
Few have come to understand that this impossibility of living stems not from geography, but from complicity.
Most who stay or go never part ways with their surrender and quiet compliance— and so they recreate, everywhere they settle, the same conditions and reasons for departure.
Few have realized that all places will remain unlivable as long as the urge to leave is born from a complicit, defeated self…”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
