Books Published

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FICTION

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The Dissenters, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2025. ISBN 978-1-64445-319-3

 

Innaka dhahib ila al bar (Arabic: إنك ذاهب إلى البار; You Are Going to the Bar), novella, Milano: Almutawassit, 2024. ISBN 979-1-2559-1029-9

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Emissaries, short stories, London: Barakunan, 2023. ISBN 978-1-3999-3363-6

 

Paolo (Arabic: باولو), novel, Cairo-Beirut-Tunis: Dar Al-Tanwir, 2016. ISBN 978-977648-358-3

 

The Crocodiles (Arabic: التماسيح), novel, Beirut: Dar Al-Saqi, 2013. ISBN 978-1-85516-878-7. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2015. ISBN 978-160980-571-5

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The Book of the Sultan’s Seal: Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars (Arabic: كتاب الطغرى: غرائب التاريخ في مدينة المريخ), novel, Cairo: Dar Al-Shorouk, 2011. ISBN 978-9-77092-988-9. Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-6-14419-868-1. USA: Interlink, 2015. ISBN 978-1-56656-916-3. Geneva: Éditions Zoé, 2016. ISBN 978-2-88927-378-2

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Azhar ash-shams (Arabic: أزهار الشمس; Flowers of the Sun), short stories, Cairo: Dar Sharqiyat, 1999

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POEMS, ESSAYS

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Walakinna Qalbi: Ma ba'd al Mutanabbi (Arabic: ولكن قلبي: ما بعد المتنبي; And Yet My Heart: Post Mutanabbi), essays and poems, with illustrations by Walid Taher, Dammam: Dar Athar, 2022. ISBN 978-603-91904-5-5

 

Walakinna Qalbi: Mutanabbi al Alfiya al Thalitha (Arabic: ولكن قلبي: متنبي الألفية الثالثة; And Yet My Heart: Third Millennium Mutanabbi), 20 poems and a personal essay, with illustrations by Walid Taher (on a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture), Cairo-Beirut-Tunis: Dar Al-Tanwir, 2021. ISBN 978-977-828-060-9

 

Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy, essay, Palgrave Macmillan (Pivot): Arab Cinema Series, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-61353-2

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Arab Porn, essay (ebook only), 60Pages (long-form collective), 2016. ASIN B01J4YMPZK. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017. ISBN 978-3-95757-382-7

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Yadhhar malak (Arabic: يظهر ملاك; An Angel Appears), poems, ebook only, 2011

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Kull amakinina (Arabic: كل أماكننا; All Our Places), poems and essays, Cairo: Dar Al-Ain, 2010. ISBN 978-9-77490-022-8

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Shamal al qahira gharb al filibbin (Arabic: شمال القاهرة غرب الفلبين; North of Cairo, West of the Philippines), travel essays, Beirut: Riyad El-Rayyes, 2009. ISBN 978-9-95321-422-1

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Bourguiba ala madad (Arabic: بورقيبة على مضض; Bourguiba Reluctantly), part two of Beirut shi mahal (without photos), Beirut: Riyad El-Rayyes, 2008. ISBN 995-3-21334-8

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Beirut shi mahal (Arabic: بيروت شي محل; Beirut Some Place), photo travelogue, Alexandria: Amkenah Books, 2006. Bejrut jest gdzieś tam, Warsaw: Dobra Literatura, 2012. ISBN 978-83-935437-0-0

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