@saqibooks.bsky.social
A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa. www.saqibooks.com
From our friends at Untold Narratives - two great opportunities to support and contribute to their important work.
04.08.2025 08:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Our Summer Sale is HERE!
Step into stories that span continents, cultures, and voices. Enjoy 30% off a curated collection of boundary-pushing fiction from the Saqi Bookshelf this August.
Shop via saqibooks.com/subject/saqi...
#SummerSale #BookSale #SaqiBooks
In this exclusive online essay, Dalia Al-Dujaili writes about the inspiration and research behind her debut, BABLYON, ALBION (@saqibooks.bsky.social), a nature-memoir exploring identity through the land-based mythologies of Britain and Iraq and family memories of migration.
Read:
Israeli Rights Groups Break Silence: Genocide in Gaza Acknowledged by B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights.
Interview with Radio Islam South Africa on 30 August.
soundcloud.com/radioislam/i...
Thrilled to share that The Queer Arab Glossary, edited by Marwan Kaabour, has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ+ Anthology category! A bold and necessary celebration of queer Arab expression, proudly published by Saqi.
🔗 lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
Starvation in Gaza: 'Western public opinion is starting to find this absolutely intolerable'
I was interviewed yesterday evening on @en.france24.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZlz...
(See my article: "The Mirage of a Palestinian State" posted yesterday)
Book of the Day: Syria Speaks
When voices are silenced, art speaks louder.
This powerful anthology of Syrian writing and art defies tyranny and reclaims humanity.
Courage. Creativity. Resistance.
#SyriaSpeaks #ArtAsResistance #VoicesFromSyria
Learn more about the full longlist here:
www.cundillprize.com/news/the-202...
We’re very excited to share that ‘Across The Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640’ by Sanjay Subrahmanyam has been longlisted for the 2025 #CundillHistoryPrize!
28.07.2025 11:12 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Photo: A dance at St Mary's School, Tiger Bay, April 1950.
25.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo: A young dandy wearing a formal suit and top hat, circa 1890.
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Book of the Day: Black Britain by Paul Gilroy
From Windrush to Notting Hill, Gilroy weaves a vital visual history of Black life in the UK – the icons, the everyday, the overlooked.
A powerful chronicle of presence, resistance and belonging.
#BlackBritishHistory #PostcolonialBritain #PaulGilroy
Such an excellent book
24.07.2025 05:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Huge congratulations to the editors Mahmoud Muna, @matthewteller.com, Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.
23.07.2025 16:46 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards!
www.palestinebookawards.com/news/item/an...
Book Club 📚 In 'The Gaza Catastrophe', Israel’s genocide is shown to be rooted in history, fuelled by global backing for its military power and colonial project 👇
23.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Excerpt from Adania Shibli's 'The Fence', one of many vital, powerful pieces contained within.
23.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book of the Day: Keep Your Eye On The Wall
Art from the edge of occupation.
This striking collection of photos, essays & visual works is a leporello of protest, presence and defiance.
Where walls rise, so does resistance.
More: shorturl.at/eTiKy
#PalestinianArt #VisualResistance
'For each murdered son, brother, daughter or mother who volunteered to approach this mechanism of carnage in the hope of returning alive with supplies for those waiting hungry and dependent ... there are many more who return injured.'
Selma Dabbagh for the @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
A great conversation: hear Dalia Al-Dujaili in conversation with the How to Make Climate Change Sexy Podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/4jdU...
A great interview with Gilbert Achcar on Labour Hub on Gaza, Atlanticism and his broader work, proudly published by Saqi.
17.07.2025 09:43 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For the @lrb.co.uk, Adam Shatz offers a sober, deeply informed take on Gaza and its global reverberations in 'The World Since 7 October'. He draws on Gilbert Achcar’s The Arabs and the Holocaust and The Gaza Catastrophe – both published by Saqi.
#AdamShatz #GilbertAchcar #Gaza #MiddleEast #LRB
Want to read more from PEN Pinter Prize winner Leila Aboulela?
Head to www.saqibooks.com to browse now!
Wonderful news! Leila Aboulela, Saqi author and a truly powerful literary voice, has been awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize. She’ll receive the honour on 10 Oct at the British Library. We’re so proud! Learn more here: www.englishpen.org/posts/news/l...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
New praise for This Queer Arab Family from some of our favourites:
Dan Glass calls it ‘a breathtakingly beautiful book … a vital act of defiance.’
Sahar Mustafah says it's ‘a gift at a time when we desperately need hope.’
Queer Arab stories, loud and loved. Out 18 September.
#ThisQueerArabFamily
Saqi is proud to be supporting the launch of Extraordinary Books, a UK-based, not-for-profit trade publishing house, is officially launching today with 'a different vision of publishing.'
01.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
GENOCIDE IN PERSPECTIVE
A review of Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by David Finkel @atc_mag
againstthecurrent.org/atc237/genoc...
Excerpt:
It must be said that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone. [cont'd]
From our friends - acclaimed Palestinian oud player Nizar Rohana, known for his virtuosity and fresh, contemporary compositions, tonight - June 30 - at Grand Junction.
grandjunction.org.uk/events/nizar...
“Buy More U.S. Weapons”: “Daddy” Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries
democracynow.org/2025/6/26/pr...
