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Author
Series
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A novel on the lot of Arab women. Set in Jordan in the 1940s, the protagonists are two women in a mental hospital who exchange stories. One is a mother of eight who was repudiated by her husband so he could marry a younger woman. By a Jordanian writing in English, author of Nisanit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional...
4) Thunderbird
Author
Series
Publisher
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world"--
"The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. Aided by a djinn cat and girls who look identical to Noor and who each have one of the bird's powers, in this initial volume Noor begins her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. In this second installment, Noor finds herself in the year 1177 in Jerusalem, during the Crusades. With the help of Sabeeka, Zainab, a girl who has the power to become invisible, and her local resistance group, Noor must...
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