Raja Alem

• Sep-2002
• / Literary
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'There was a blue cast to Satjma's handsomely sculpted mesmerizing tale of earthbound witchery and celestial love. Fatma, an Arabian peasant girl, unwittingly embarks upon a strange journey of transformation the day her father marries her off to a sn...

• Oct-2007
• / Romance
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The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand and One Nights, women hold cente...

• Mar-2016
• / Literary
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The stunning novel that explores the secret life of Mecca by the first woman to win the international prize for Arabic fiction. When the body of a young woman is discovered in the Lane of Many Heads, an alley in modern-day Mecca, no one will claim...

• Oct-2018
• / Contemporary Romance
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November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a young woman, Sarab, disguis...