DISCOVER Saqi: RBF 2025 PUBLISHER HIGHLIGHTS
Guest
Saqi is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa! Saqi published some of favourite books of 2025 including This Queer Arab Family, and Daybreak in Gaza. We’re thrilled that on Sunday we have their author Dalia al-Dujaili joining us to discuss her book Babylon, Albion : A Personal History of Myth and Migration.
Linked Books

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- Daybreak in Gaza : Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
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- Edited by Matthew Teller & Mahmoud Muna

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- Babylon, Albion : A Personal History of Myth and Migration
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- al-Dujaili, Dalia

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- This Queer Arab Family
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- Ed. Elias Jahshan

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- C+nto : & Othered Poems
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- Taylor, Joelle

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- After Zionism : One State for Israel and Palestine
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- Loewenstein, Antony, Moor, Ahmed

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- The Arabs and the Holocaust : The Arab–Israeli War of Narratives
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- Achcar, Gilbert

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- Classical Poems by Arab Women : An Anthology
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- al-Udhari, Abdullah

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- Desert Songs of the Night : 1500 Years of Arabic Literature
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- N/A

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- I'll Tell You When I'm Home : A Memoir
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- Alyan, Hala

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- The Queer Arab Glossary
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- Kabbour, Marwan

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- A River Dies of Thirst : Diaries
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- Darwish, Mahmoud, Cobham, Catherine, Padel, Ruth

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- River Spirit
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- Aboulela, Leila

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- This Arab Is Queer : An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
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- Jahshan, Elias

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- Sex and Punishment : Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
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- Berkowitz, Eric