To celebrate the summer wedding season try:
- Wedding Night by Yusuf Abu Rayya
- The Wedding of Zein and other Stories by Tayeb Saleh
- Wedding by the Sea by Abdelkader Benali
- Wedding Song by Naguib Mahfouz
For a change,why not explore some non-fiction:
- Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family, by Syrian author Hanna Mina
- Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey From Lebanon by Elmaz Abinader
- Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman by Leila Abouzeid, Elizabeth Fernea
Short story collections make great Travel books:
- Oranges in the Sun: Short Stories from the Arabian Gulf, edited by Akers and Bagader
- Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writers, edited by Ava Heinrichsdorff
- A Last Glass of Tea and Other Stories by Mohammed el Bisatie
- Native Informant: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World by Ramzi Salti
To try more by authors we’ve read before, we suggest:
- The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant by Sahar Khalifeh
- Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
- Story of a City by Abdul Rahman Munif
- Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
To learn about authors we have yet to read in Kutub, we suggest:
- Sharon and My Mother-in-law by Suad al-Amiry
- Leaving Beirut by Mai Ghoussoub
- The Ship by Jabra Ibrahim
- The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar
- Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad, by Iraqi author Alia Mamdouh
