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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...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Saqi Books is at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week!

Find us in Hall 6.0, Stand C86 — celebrating independent publishing and showcasing bold new voices from across the Arab world.

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October 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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« The Poet and the Calligrapher » by Hassan Massoudy, @saqibooks

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August 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Published by Saqi Books, London.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Thrilled to see Leila Aboulela awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize!

Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving.

Read it here via Wasafiri:
www.wasafiri.org/content/the-...

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An image of author Leila Aboulela with a quote from her Pen Pinter Prize acceptance speech, 'Justice is the gravity keeping us upright as humans'.
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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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...

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August 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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New: «The Poet and the Calligrapher » by Hassan Massoudy, Saqi Books, London

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May 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Nouvelles publications de la famille Massoudy :
1. «The Poet and the Calligrapher » de Hassan Massoudy, Saqi Publisher, Londres
2. «La Perle Rouge » de Nadia Pla-Massoudy, Éditions Complicités, Paris
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April 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Saqi author Gilbert Achcar joins Savage Minds (@savageminds.substack.com.web.brid.gy) to discuss his book, The Gaza Catastrophe, a vital analysis of the ongoing crisis and its historical roots.

🎧 Listen here → savageminds.substack.com/p/gilbert-ac...

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October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Reading this weekend, out next week 😍:

• Brown Women Have Everything x Sayantani Dasgupta/@unc_press
• Model Home x Rivers Solomon/@fsgbooks
• The Black Utopians x Aaron Robertson/@fsgbooks
• Daybreak in Gaza x Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller (Eds.)/@SaqiBooks

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Book covers for the titles listed above: Brown Women has two women in South Asian dress, one styling the hair of the other; Model Home has an illustration of a two storey home; Black Utopians has an illustrated Black woman with an afro seemingly in an alcove; Daybreak shows a city skyline across a body of water with boats in the foreground.
September 28, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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THE ARABS AND THE HOLOCAUST: FIFTEEN YEARS LATER
A talk @SOAS on the occasion of the publication of a new edition of my book @SaqiBooks Tuesday 11 March, 5.30pm
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The Arabs and the Holocaust – Saqi Books
The Arab–Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle East battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the...
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March 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Join Saqi author Gilbert Achcar this November for two talks on The Gaza Catastrophe:

📍 SOAS London – 5 Nov | 6pm | Free
📍 Blackwell’s Manchester – 19 Nov | 7pm | £4 / free w/ book

Details & tickets via our Linktree → “Events”

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October 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Daybreak in Gaza/@SaqiBooks
"Scarface – 18 February 2024 ‘See yourself for a shekel!’ A boy in the market is holding a tiny piece of mirror, encouraging people to look at their faces for one shekel (about twenty-five US cents). He is making a living by offering a very rare service. I have not seen my face since I arrived in Rafah, many weeks ago. You can’t buy mirrors any more. Anyway, a mirror is something you forget about in this situation. How you look doesn’t matter. I ask him: ‘Do you make money this way?’ He tells me he does. ‘Lots of people want to see themselves,’ he says. ‘I make thirty shekels a day, or more. But you see him?’ The boy points to a man down the street, walking away from us. ‘He looked at his face, but gave the mirror back to me without paying. I’m not stopping him, though. He had a cut from his face all the way down to his chest, a long, horrible cut, not healed well at all. I think it was from shrapnel. He looked at his big, ugly scar and when he gave me back the mirror I saw he was...
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Sunday book review: The Birds They Sang by Stanislaw Lubienski http://ow.ly/MPJa50yMrb3 @SaqiBooks
December 1, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Book review: The Birds They Sang by Stanislaw Lubienski http://ow.ly/bcgM50zaM0M @SaqiBooks
December 1, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Sunday book review: The Birds They Sang by Stanislaw Lubienski http://ow.ly/MPJa50yMrb3 @SaqiBooks
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November 27, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Book review: The Birds They Sang by Stanislaw Lubienski http://ow.ly/bcgM50zaM0M @SaqiBooks
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November 27, 2024 at 5:41 AM