Arab American Heritage | Southeastern Ohio Regional Library

Time to pray

Addasi, Maha

Paper Book

A visit with Grandmother in the Middle East is always special for Yasmin, but this time it is even more so in this picture book about faith and family. On her first night visiting her grandmother, Yasmin is wakened by the muezzin at the nearby mosque calling the faithful to prayer. She...

Juvenile Fiction

The space between our footsteps : poems and paintings from the Middle East

Nye, Naomi Shihab.

Paper Book

In an unparalleled collection, an honored anthologist compiles the work of over 120 poets and artists from 19 countries in the Middle East. This rich anthology opens the door to Middle Eastern culture. Full color.

Juvenile Nonfiction

Mirage

Daud, Somaiya

Paper Book

"A refreshing and unique coming-of-age story...a beautiful and necessary meditation on finding strength in one's culture." --Entertainment Weekly, Top Pick of the Month "A YA marvel that will shock breath into your lungs. If you loved The Wrath and the...

Young Adult Fiction

Also available in:
eAudiobook

Huda F Are You

Fahmy, Huda.

Ebook

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the question everyone has to figure out for themselves: Who are you? Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old...

Young Adult Graphic Novel

It won't always be like this : a graphic memoir

Gharib, Malaka

Paper Book

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country-from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream. "What a joy it is to read Malaka...

Young Adult Graphic Novels
Adult Graphic Novels

The stardust thief

Abdullah, Chelsea

Paper Book

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp. Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . ...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

eAudiobook

Against the loveless world : a novel

Abulhawa, Susan

Paper Book

2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist "Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

CD audiobook

eBook

eAudiobook

The skin and its girl : a novel

Cypher, Sarah

Paper Book

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this "enchanting, memorable" (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. "As beautifully detailed as a piece of Palestinian embroidery, this...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

The arsonists' city

Alyan, Hala

Paper Book

"Feels revolutionary in its freshness." --Entertainment Weekly "The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It's...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

CD Audiobook

eBook

eAudiobook

A map of home : a novel

Jarrar, Randa.

Paper Book

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

Alligator & other stories

Alzayat, Dima

Paper Book

*2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Finalist. *2021 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2021, Longlist. *2020 Short Story Prize, Longlist. "The richly detailed short fictions in this debut from a Damascus-born scribe form an intricate,...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

You exist too much : a novel

Arafat, Zaina

Paper Book

A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine). On a hot day in Bethlehem,...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

eAudiobook

Fencing with the king : a novel

Abu-Jaber, Diana

Paper Book

The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his favorite pastime--fencing--and with his favorite sparring partner, Gabriel Hamdan, who must be enticed back from America, where he lives with his wife and his daughter, Amani. Amani, a divorced poet, jumps...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

The hunters : two short novels

Messud, Claire

CD

"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportunity, but his eventual success increases the gulf...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

A woman is no man : a novel

Rum, Etaf

Paper Book

A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut * BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year * A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year * A Real Simple Best Book of the Year * A PopSugar Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

CD Audiobook

eBook
eAudiobook

The Last Life

Messud, Claire

Paper Book

The Last Life is the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants. It is set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England. The LaBasse family had always believed in the permanence of their world, in which stories created from the past had the...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

Girls of Riyadh

??ni?, Raj?? ?Abd All?h.

Paper Book

A bold new voice from Saudi Arabia spins a fascinating tale of four young women attempting to navigate the narrow straits between love, desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition In her debut novel Rajaa Alsanea reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eAudiobook

Bride of the sea : a novel

Quotah, Eman

Paper Book

During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting their first child, and he is harboring a secret: the word divorce is whispering in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eAudiobook

Casebook : a novel

Simpson, Mona.

Paper Book

From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives....

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

The emperor's children

Messud, Claire

Paper Book

From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation" (San Francisco Chronicle),The Emperor's Childrenis a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:
eBook

The other Americans

Lalami, Laila

Paper Book

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

Crescent

Abu-Jaber, Diana.

Paper Book

Praised by critics for her first novel, "Arabian Jazz, " Diana Abu-Jaber now weaves with spellbinding magic a multidimensional love story set in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles.

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eAudiobook

My Hollywood : a novel

Simpson, Mona.

Paper Book

From the much-loved author of Anywhere but Here and The Lost Father, a long-awaited novel--her first in ten years--about two women behind the glitter of Hollywood. Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to L.A. so her husband can follow his dream of writing TV comedy. Suddenly, the marriage...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:
eBook

Salt houses

Alyan, Hala

Paper Book

Indie Next PickReceived two starred reviewsSMLOn the eve of her daughter's wedding, Salma reads Alia's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children, which will come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Lyrical and...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

Large Print

CD Audiobook

eBook

eAudiobook

The burning girl

Messud, Claire

Paper Book

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorJulia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. But as they enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. The Burning Girl is a complex examination of the stories...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

Large Print

eAudiobook

The map of salt and stars

Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab

Paper Book

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart--a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice--"perfectly aligns with the cultural moment" (The...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

eAudiobook

The Moor's account : a novel

Lalami, Laila

Paper Book

"From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

eBook

The woman upstairs

Messud, Claire

Paper Book

From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "The Emperors Children, " a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

Large Print

eBook

No land to light on : a novel

Zgheib, Yara

Paper Book

From the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street comes a "masterful story of tragedy and redemption" (Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses) "written in soul-searing prose" (BookPage, starred review) about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love on the cusp of their bright...

Adult Fiction

Also available in:

Large Print

CD Audiobook

eAudiobook

The prophet

Gibran, Kahlil

Paper Book

One of the most beloved classics of our time--a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Published in 1923, Gibran's masterpiece has been translated into more than twenty languages. Gibran's musings are divided into...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

Large Print

CD Audiobook

eBook

eAudiobook

Conditional citizens : on belonging in America

Lalami, Laila

Paper Book

A New York Times Editors' Choice * Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

eAudiobook

Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo

Adayfi, Mansoor

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD 2022 * "Amazing book! And will be an eye-opener for many." --Margaret Atwood This "searing" (The New York Times) memoir of an innocent man detained at...

Adult Nonfiction

House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East

Shadid, Anthony.

Paper Book

"Evocative and beautifully written,House of Stone . . . should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East." -- Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author ofCrossing Mandelbaum Gate "In rebuilding his family home in...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

eBook

Love is an ex-country : a memoir

Jarrar, Randa

Paper Book

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review). ...

Adult Nonfiction

The language of Baklava

Abu-Jaber, Diana.

Paper Book

"From the acclaimed author of Crescent, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kabob...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

eBook

This just speaks to me : words to live by every day

Kotb, Hoda

Paper Book

When her first collection of quotes, I Really Needed This Today, was published in 2019, Hoda never imagined how deeply her favorite words, stories, and memories would resonate with readers. People across the country were connected not only by the book's positive message, but through their generosity...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

Large Print

CD Audiobook

eAudiobook

This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman

Omar, Ilhan

Paper Book

Named a Best Political Book of the Year by The Atlantic "This Is What America Looks Like is the origin story of a leader who, finding no set path that would take a person like her to the places she wanted to go, was forced, and free, to chart her own." -The New York Times Book Review ...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

eAudiobook

The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between

Matar, Hisham

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle...

Adult Nonfiction

Also available in:

eBook

A Kid's Guide to Arab American History More Than 50 Activities

Dennis, Yvonne Wakim.

Paper Book

Winner of: 2014 Arab American Book Award, Children/Young Adult Category Many Americans, educators included, mistakenly believe all Arabs share the same culture, language, and religion, and have only recently begun immigrating to the United States....

Huda F Cares National Book Award Finalist

Fahmy, Huda.

Ebook

A National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Disney World, but self-conscious Huda worries her family will stand out too much. Huda and her sisters...

Arab American HeritageUnpublishedShare

Arab American HeritageUnpublished