Saqi Books
@saqibooks.bsky.social
A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Our Winter Sale is here!
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our Winter Sale is here!
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
We are honoured to share Archiving Gaza in the Present, edited by Dina Matar & Venetia Porter. The book reveals how conflict erases lives and memory, even as archiving, art-making and testimony endure.
Learn more or order your own copy on our website.
Learn more or order your own copy on our website.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We are honoured to share Archiving Gaza in the Present, edited by Dina Matar & Venetia Porter. The book reveals how conflict erases lives and memory, even as archiving, art-making and testimony endure.
Learn more or order your own copy on our website.
Learn more or order your own copy on our website.
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Our November pick: Love is Resistance!
Featuring 77 bold art posters that blend creativity, activism & hope.
Each piece is a powerful reminder that art is resistance.
Explore the full collection & deals at
www.pbshop.store
@saqibooks.bsky.social
Our November pick: Love is Resistance!
Featuring 77 bold art posters that blend creativity, activism & hope.
Each piece is a powerful reminder that art is resistance.
Explore the full collection & deals at
www.pbshop.store
@saqibooks.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Our November pick: Love is Resistance!
Featuring 77 bold art posters that blend creativity, activism & hope.
Each piece is a powerful reminder that art is resistance.
Explore the full collection & deals at
www.pbshop.store
@saqibooks.bsky.social
Our November pick: Love is Resistance!
Featuring 77 bold art posters that blend creativity, activism & hope.
Each piece is a powerful reminder that art is resistance.
Explore the full collection & deals at
www.pbshop.store
@saqibooks.bsky.social
We’re delighted to share 'The Sultan’s Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages', edited and translated by Daniel L. Newman.
Discover how thirteenth-century scholars explored the connections between food, medicine and desire.
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-sultans-sex-potions
Discover how thirteenth-century scholars explored the connections between food, medicine and desire.
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-sultans-sex-potions
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We’re delighted to share 'The Sultan’s Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages', edited and translated by Daniel L. Newman.
Discover how thirteenth-century scholars explored the connections between food, medicine and desire.
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-sultans-sex-potions
Discover how thirteenth-century scholars explored the connections between food, medicine and desire.
saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-sultans-sex-potions
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Thank you Eric Page from @scenemag.co.uk for this lovely, generous combined review of This Queer Arab Family & This Arab Is Queer 🫶
I guess I can now update my bio with “essential cultural curator”
www.scenemag.co.uk/family-matte...
(h/t @saqibooks.bsky.social)
I guess I can now update my bio with “essential cultural curator”
www.scenemag.co.uk/family-matte...
(h/t @saqibooks.bsky.social)
Family Matters: A Celebration of Queer Arab Kinship
Within these stories shine moments of hope and audacious resistance. With profound beauty in surprise friendships, patient lovers, and time's gentle healing. This anthology weaves individual testimoni...
www.scenemag.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thank you Eric Page from @scenemag.co.uk for this lovely, generous combined review of This Queer Arab Family & This Arab Is Queer 🫶
I guess I can now update my bio with “essential cultural curator”
www.scenemag.co.uk/family-matte...
(h/t @saqibooks.bsky.social)
I guess I can now update my bio with “essential cultural curator”
www.scenemag.co.uk/family-matte...
(h/t @saqibooks.bsky.social)
Hala Alyan explores exile, motherhood and searching for home in a conversation with @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Her memoir 'I’ll Tell You When I’m Home', published by Saqi, dives into what it means to carry something when others can’t.
Listen now: newlinesmag.com/podcast/hala...
Listen now: newlinesmag.com/podcast/hala...
Hala Alyan Reflects on Motherhood, Exile and the Geography of Loss
Palestinian-American writer and poet Hala Alyan joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss her recent memoir, motherhood and the politics of writing during the Gaza war
newlinesmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hala Alyan explores exile, motherhood and searching for home in a conversation with @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Her memoir 'I’ll Tell You When I’m Home', published by Saqi, dives into what it means to carry something when others can’t.
Listen now: newlinesmag.com/podcast/hala...
Listen now: newlinesmag.com/podcast/hala...
We’re looking for a Senior Designer to lead the visual direction of our publishing house – from book covers and interiors to branding and marketing.
If you’re passionate about design and storytelling, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications close 2 February 2026.
If you’re passionate about design and storytelling, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications close 2 February 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We’re looking for a Senior Designer to lead the visual direction of our publishing house – from book covers and interiors to branding and marketing.
If you’re passionate about design and storytelling, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications close 2 February 2026.
If you’re passionate about design and storytelling, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications close 2 February 2026.
Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
Join Saqi author Gilbert Achcar this November for two talks on The Gaza Catastrophe:
📍 SOAS London – 5 Nov | 6pm | Free
📍 Blackwell’s Manchester – 19 Nov | 7pm | £4 / free w/ book
Details & tickets via our Linktree → “Events”
#GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks #BookEvents
📍 SOAS London – 5 Nov | 6pm | Free
📍 Blackwell’s Manchester – 19 Nov | 7pm | £4 / free w/ book
Details & tickets via our Linktree → “Events”
#GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks #BookEvents
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Join Saqi author Gilbert Achcar this November for two talks on The Gaza Catastrophe:
📍 SOAS London – 5 Nov | 6pm | Free
📍 Blackwell’s Manchester – 19 Nov | 7pm | £4 / free w/ book
Details & tickets via our Linktree → “Events”
#GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks #BookEvents
📍 SOAS London – 5 Nov | 6pm | Free
📍 Blackwell’s Manchester – 19 Nov | 7pm | £4 / free w/ book
Details & tickets via our Linktree → “Events”
#GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks #BookEvents
Saqi Books is at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week!
Find us in Hall 6.0, Stand C86 — celebrating independent publishing and showcasing bold new voices from across the Arab world.
#FrankfurtBookFair #FBM2025 #SaqiBooks #IndiePublishing
Find us in Hall 6.0, Stand C86 — celebrating independent publishing and showcasing bold new voices from across the Arab world.
#FrankfurtBookFair #FBM2025 #SaqiBooks #IndiePublishing
October 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Saqi Books is at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week!
Find us in Hall 6.0, Stand C86 — celebrating independent publishing and showcasing bold new voices from across the Arab world.
#FrankfurtBookFair #FBM2025 #SaqiBooks #IndiePublishing
Find us in Hall 6.0, Stand C86 — celebrating independent publishing and showcasing bold new voices from across the Arab world.
#FrankfurtBookFair #FBM2025 #SaqiBooks #IndiePublishing
Thrilled to see Leila Aboulela awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize!
Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving.
Read it here via Wasafiri:
www.wasafiri.org/content/the-...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving.
Read it here via Wasafiri:
www.wasafiri.org/content/the-...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Thrilled to see Leila Aboulela awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize!
Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving.
Read it here via Wasafiri:
www.wasafiri.org/content/the-...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
Her acceptance speech “The Inaccurate Mirror” is powerful and deeply moving.
Read it here via Wasafiri:
www.wasafiri.org/content/the-...
#LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks
Saqi author Gilbert Achcar joins Savage Minds (@savageminds.substack.com.web.brid.gy) to discuss his book, The Gaza Catastrophe, a vital analysis of the ongoing crisis and its historical roots.
🎧 Listen here → savageminds.substack.com/p/gilbert-ac...
#TheGazaCatastrophe #GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks
🎧 Listen here → savageminds.substack.com/p/gilbert-ac...
#TheGazaCatastrophe #GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Saqi author Gilbert Achcar joins Savage Minds (@savageminds.substack.com.web.brid.gy) to discuss his book, The Gaza Catastrophe, a vital analysis of the ongoing crisis and its historical roots.
🎧 Listen here → savageminds.substack.com/p/gilbert-ac...
#TheGazaCatastrophe #GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks
🎧 Listen here → savageminds.substack.com/p/gilbert-ac...
#TheGazaCatastrophe #GilbertAchcar #SaqiBooks
“The inner circles of hell are reserved for those who remain neutral at a time of crisis.”
In @theobserveruk.bsky.social, @selmadabbagh.bsky.social reflects on moral courage and the cost of silence in the face of atrocity.
Read here: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
In @theobserveruk.bsky.social, @selmadabbagh.bsky.social reflects on moral courage and the cost of silence in the face of atrocity.
Read here: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“The inner circles of hell are reserved for those who remain neutral at a time of crisis.”
In @theobserveruk.bsky.social, @selmadabbagh.bsky.social reflects on moral courage and the cost of silence in the face of atrocity.
Read here: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
In @theobserveruk.bsky.social, @selmadabbagh.bsky.social reflects on moral courage and the cost of silence in the face of atrocity.
Read here: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
In a new interview with Jadaliyya, art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan discusses how his book, Contemporary Iranian Art, reexamines modern and contemporary art beyond Eurocentric frameworks – centering local contexts, histories and voices.
🔗 Full interview via @jadaliyya.bsky.social
🔗 Full interview via @jadaliyya.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In a new interview with Jadaliyya, art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan discusses how his book, Contemporary Iranian Art, reexamines modern and contemporary art beyond Eurocentric frameworks – centering local contexts, histories and voices.
🔗 Full interview via @jadaliyya.bsky.social
🔗 Full interview via @jadaliyya.bsky.social
Mai Al-Nakib’s acclaimed short story collection The Hidden Light of Objects – winner of the Edinburgh Book Festival’s 1st Book Award – is finally available for US readers.
Stories that uncover the memories hidden in everyday things.
Ask your local bookstore to order your copy today!
Stories that uncover the memories hidden in everyday things.
Ask your local bookstore to order your copy today!
October 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Mai Al-Nakib’s acclaimed short story collection The Hidden Light of Objects – winner of the Edinburgh Book Festival’s 1st Book Award – is finally available for US readers.
Stories that uncover the memories hidden in everyday things.
Ask your local bookstore to order your copy today!
Stories that uncover the memories hidden in everyday things.
Ask your local bookstore to order your copy today!
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Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
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This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin
'Classical Poems by Arab Women'
@saqibooks.bsky.social
#booksky #books
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This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin
'Classical Poems by Arab Women'
@saqibooks.bsky.social
#booksky #books
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
📚💜
This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin
'Classical Poems by Arab Women'
@saqibooks.bsky.social
#booksky #books
📚💜
This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin
'Classical Poems by Arab Women'
@saqibooks.bsky.social
#booksky #books
WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
September 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
'The memorial is no longer a monument structure on land but a wearable object, moving with the body from site to site.'
-Sama Alshaibi
Alshaibi's practice is among 24 contemporary artists featured in Joanna Barakat’s landmark new book, Narrative Threads – out now from Saqi.
-Sama Alshaibi
Alshaibi's practice is among 24 contemporary artists featured in Joanna Barakat’s landmark new book, Narrative Threads – out now from Saqi.
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
'The memorial is no longer a monument structure on land but a wearable object, moving with the body from site to site.'
-Sama Alshaibi
Alshaibi's practice is among 24 contemporary artists featured in Joanna Barakat’s landmark new book, Narrative Threads – out now from Saqi.
-Sama Alshaibi
Alshaibi's practice is among 24 contemporary artists featured in Joanna Barakat’s landmark new book, Narrative Threads – out now from Saqi.
'I see my mother and her mother's work in tatreez as a manifestation of identity ... They embroidered, stitched, cut, knitted and clothed our history, memories and future hopes through their handiwork ...'
-Sama Alshaibi
-Sama Alshaibi
September 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
'I see my mother and her mother's work in tatreez as a manifestation of identity ... They embroidered, stitched, cut, knitted and clothed our history, memories and future hopes through their handiwork ...'
-Sama Alshaibi
-Sama Alshaibi
Her practice is among 24 contemporary artists featured in Joanna Barakat’s landmark new book, Narrative Threads – out now from Saqi.
September 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Her practice is among 24 contemporary artists featured in Joanna Barakat’s landmark new book, Narrative Threads – out now from Saqi.
From Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art
Sama Alshaibi reframes the Palestinian woman’s body in her work – not as a passive subject for the colonial lens, but as an active site of memory and resistance.
Sama Alshaibi reframes the Palestinian woman’s body in her work – not as a passive subject for the colonial lens, but as an active site of memory and resistance.
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art
Sama Alshaibi reframes the Palestinian woman’s body in her work – not as a passive subject for the colonial lens, but as an active site of memory and resistance.
Sama Alshaibi reframes the Palestinian woman’s body in her work – not as a passive subject for the colonial lens, but as an active site of memory and resistance.
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British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison
Writer, who has served six years for sharing a Facebook post, was given a presidential pardon
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
From 'Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art':
Sliman Mansour painted women in embroidered dresses as symbols of homeland — each stitch preserving memory and defiance.
His work is featured in Joanna Barakat’s book, Narrative Threads. Follow the link in our bio to learn more.
Sliman Mansour painted women in embroidered dresses as symbols of homeland — each stitch preserving memory and defiance.
His work is featured in Joanna Barakat’s book, Narrative Threads. Follow the link in our bio to learn more.
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
From 'Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art':
Sliman Mansour painted women in embroidered dresses as symbols of homeland — each stitch preserving memory and defiance.
His work is featured in Joanna Barakat’s book, Narrative Threads. Follow the link in our bio to learn more.
Sliman Mansour painted women in embroidered dresses as symbols of homeland — each stitch preserving memory and defiance.
His work is featured in Joanna Barakat’s book, Narrative Threads. Follow the link in our bio to learn more.
Saqi is at the Multicultural Book Fair 🎉 Join us tomorrow (Sat 6 Sept 2025) at Conway Hall, London (10am–4.30pm).
Over 50 publishers & booksellers, plus talks & readings all day. Come say hi - we’ll have a curated selection of bold, diverse & vital books!
Over 50 publishers & booksellers, plus talks & readings all day. Come say hi - we’ll have a curated selection of bold, diverse & vital books!
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Saqi is at the Multicultural Book Fair 🎉 Join us tomorrow (Sat 6 Sept 2025) at Conway Hall, London (10am–4.30pm).
Over 50 publishers & booksellers, plus talks & readings all day. Come say hi - we’ll have a curated selection of bold, diverse & vital books!
Over 50 publishers & booksellers, plus talks & readings all day. Come say hi - we’ll have a curated selection of bold, diverse & vital books!
We are proud to announce 'Love is Resistance':
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We are proud to announce 'Love is Resistance':
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.