Arab American Heritage Month

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

By: Omar El Akkad
Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“There are few books that I think everyone should consider reading--this is one of them. The audiobook, read by the author, gives voice to his urgent work of condemnation against a liberal West that has wholesale abandoned, even accelerated, genocide of the Palestinian people. El Akkad's words, written in a narrative journalistic style with... Read more

The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“I was blown away by this book! It's a cross between EE Cummings' The Enormous Room, Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. It's a strange combo, but it works! In the near future, the Risk Assessment Administration assigns all citizens a risk assessment score. If your score exceeds 500, you are subject to... Read more

Between Two Moons

A Novel

By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE, THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, & THE BROOKYLN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, "a moving look at family, survival, and celebration" (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in... Read more

We Hunt the Flame

Sands of Arawiya: Book #1

By: Hafsah Faizal
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Steve West
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

"Narrators Fiona Hardingham and Steve West lend their exceptional vocal skills to this fantasy novel...Both narrators deliver commanding performances steeped in drama and suspense, drawing out every ounce of emotion and intrigue: — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah... Read more

Headscarves and Hymens

Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

By: Mona Eltahawy
Narrated by: Mona Eltahawy
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activist

When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled "Why Do They Hate Us?" it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The response it generated, with more than four thousand posts on the... Read more

The Book of Collateral Damage

By: Sinan Antoon
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory



Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the... Read more

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

A Palestinian Memoir

By: Raja Shehadeh
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

2023 National Book Award Finalist for NonfictionA subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rightsAziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee. He was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this searingly... Read more

Behind You Is the Sea

A Novel

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Ali Nasser
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

“In these linked stories, three Palestinian interconnected families in Baltimore, caught between the values of their homeland while struggling to make sense of their American children, come to life. It’s a portrait of how class, gender, generations and traditional values both divide and unite them, with a different family in focus in each... Read more

The Skin and Its Girl

A Novel

By: Sarah Cypher
Narrated by: Victoria Nassif & Haneen Arafat Murphy
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

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 bold, vivid novel will speak to readers across genders, cultures, and... Read more

A Tempest of Tea

Blood and Tea: Book #1

By: Hafsah Faizal
Narrated by: Maya Saroya
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

“Do you like Heist Movies? Vampires? Tea? and Mystery? Then this is the perfect book for you it has all that and more! This book explores colonialism and a world where the characters have to work the system to survive. Read more

Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Leila Buck
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award A Best Book of the Year: NPR • NYLON • Kirkus • Bustle • BookPage "What does home mean when you no longer have a house—or a homeland? This beautiful novel traces one Palestinian family's struggle with that question and how it can haunt generations. … This is an example of... Read more

The Bird Tattoo

By: Dunya Mikhail
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and... Read more

Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine
Narrated by: Sarab Kamoo & Qarie Marshall
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a... Read more

Six Truths and a Lie

By: Ream Shukairy
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri, Ali Nasser & Lameece Issaq
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of America’s justice system, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas and Samira Ahmed.

As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig—resulting in chaos and worse, murder.
 
At the... Read more

Too Soon

A Novel

By: Betty Shamieh
Narrated by: Betty Shamieh, Jacqueline Antaramian & Lameece Issaq
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

“Shamieh humorously and seriously depicts three generations of Palestinian women—their aspirations, desires, and failures—covering their escape from Jaffa in 1948, immigration to the US in the 1960s, and return to Palestine in 2012. The story is both captivating and inspiring. I loved the narrators! Read more

I'll Tell You When I'm Home

By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Hala Alyan
Length: TBA

The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her family’s exile and displacement, all in the name of a new future.

After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by... Read more

The Arsonists' City

By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Leila Buck
Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home

The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of... Read more