Diving for Pearls 17th March 2021
A young woman’s body floats in the Dubai marina. Her death alters the fates of six people, each one striving for a better life in an unforgiving city. A young Irish man comes to stay with his sister, keen...
Blogs in March 2021
A Little Piece of Ground 8th March 2021
In Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground, twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. Karim longs to...
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein 4th March 2021
Video game villains and real-life dictators dominate daily life for eleven-year-old Ali Ali Fadhil has very simple likes and dislikes. It is 1991 in Iraq and all Ali wants to do is read his comics and play football and...
The Book of Ramallah (Reading The City) 2nd March 2021
A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself… A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must...
Mediterranean Sunset 17th February 2021
When Fatima was growing up in the affluent neighborhood of Kalorama in Washington D.C., she never imagined that her father, an ambassador, would force her into an arranged marriage that would take her across the world. After graduating from...
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