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Saqi Books

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.

 

 

 

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A Mouth Full of Salt
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
River Spirit
Egyptian Earth
The Earthquake
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine
Wild Thorns
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women
A Country of Words: A Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page
Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
Meet Me in Gaza: Uncommon Stories of Life Inside the Strip
The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948
The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
Sabra Zoo
Shake Off
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
The Commander
Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes
Native: Dispatches from a Palestinian-Israeli Life 2016
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
Paris Isn’t Dead Yet: Surviving Gentrification in the City of Light
Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran
River Spirit
An Unlasting Home
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Discretion
Yemen In Crisis: Devastating Conflict, Fragile Hope
The New Cold War: The New Cold War: the United States, Russia and China-from Kosovo to Ukraine
Berlin Childhood around 1900
Testaments Betrayed
Shaihu Umar: Slavery in Africa
In the Palace of Flowers
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
The Slave Yards: A Novel
Celestial Bodies
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Paradise: A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Zealot: The Life and Time of Jesus of Nazareth
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Black Britain: A Photographic History
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
A Concise History of the Arabs
Syria: A Recent History
Elsewhere, Home
Misogynies
Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen
For Bread Alone
Dubrovnik: A History
About My Mother
Jamilia
The Quarter
Elsewhere, Home
Metropole
Istanbul, Istanbul
The Hungry Ghosts
Dance of the Jakaranda
Song for Night
For Bread Alone
No Word from Gurb
The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt
The Ministry of Pain
Three Sisters
Young Turk
A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi`is
A Concise History of the Arabs
Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921
Dubrovnik: A History
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters
The Private World of Ottoman Women
The Janissaries
An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)
Madam Ataturk: The First Lady of Modern Turkey
Heart of Beirut: Reclaiming the Bourj
Suleiman the Magnificent
Harun Al-Rashid: and the World of the Thousand and One Nights
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia: Personality, Faith and Times
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature
We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen
Shadi Ghadirian: A Woman Photographer from Iran
Khatt: Egypt's Calligraphic Landscape
Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art
Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives
Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
Palestinian Art: 1850-2005
Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes
Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People
Islamic Art and the Museum
The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy
Portrait Photographs from Isfahan: Faces in Transition 1920-1950
Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran
Palestine in Black and White
Icons: Divine Beauty
Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age
Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader
The Sultan's Sex Potions
The Sultan's Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook
An Introduction to Arab Poetics
A Brief Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet
The Arabic Alphabet
A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
English-Arabic/Arabic-English Translation: A Practical Guide
Understanding the Qur'an Today
Sufism and Surrealism
Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
Beyond the Veil: Male-female Dynamics in a Muslim Society
Sexuality in Islam
Islam: To Reform or to Subvert?
Islam and Capitalism
Imams and Emirs: State, Religion and Sects in Islam
Political Islam: Context versus Ideology
Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Two Women in One
Love in the Kingdom of Oil
The Fall of the Imam
Zeina
The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
My Cleaner
My Driver
The White Family
The Red Children
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
The Ice People
The Flood
Where are the Snows
Light Years
My Animal Life
The Blue
Zealot: The Life and Time of Jesus of Nazareth
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
C+NTO: & Othered Poems
The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century
The Last Prince of Bengal: A Family's Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback
Asian Britain
Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen
London's Overthrow
Misogynies
The Public Woman
The Birds They Sang
I Am Nobody's Nigger
Superman is an Arab
Calligraphies of the Desert
Calligraphies of Love
The Calligrapher's Garden