Buy This Book What would you do if your world comes crashing down around you? Caught in the cross-hairs of a raging civil war in Syria is Ameenah. Displaced unexpectedly as a child bride, she navigates out of the heart of Damascus, and plunges into the ancient city of Aleppo. Her voyage of self-discovery… Continue reading The Doodler of Dimashq
Buy This Book Manon Gropius (1916–1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer Franz Werfel. In Manon’s World, James Reidel explores the life and death of a child at the centre of a broken love triangle. The… Continue reading Manon’s World | A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
Buy This Book ‘Blue jewellery’ is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue jewellery is another name for the marks left on women’s bodies, inflicted by the men around them. This novel tells the story of Filiz… Continue reading Blue Jewellery
Buy This Book This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women’s experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining conflict. In Alawiya Sobh’s hands, the details of everyday life mix with female voices from across classes, sects, and generations to create an indelible picture of a climate where violence and… Continue reading Maryam | Keeper of Stories
Buy This Book In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan’s Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented… Continue reading All the Roads Are Open | An Afghan Journey
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