Sahar Mustafah

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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"We sat cross-legged on my bed, the globe wobbling between us on its plastic stand, and you turned it until a part of Asia and all of Australia faced me. You pressed your palm against Africa and teased a corner of South America until you peeled ...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Short story collection by Sahar Mustafah, David Friedman Award for Best Fiction. 2016 Grand Prize Winner for Prose, Willow Books Literature Awards. 

“The native and immigrant Palestinians in Sahar Mustafah’s Code of the West live in a w...

• Apr-2020
• / Literary
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A profound and poignant exploration of one woman's life in a nation at odds with its ideals.Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a sh...

• Oct-2025
• / General Fiction
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A new novel by the celebrated Palestinian American author of The Beauty of Your FaceAmerican-born nurse Intisar has strived to create a life for herself in Chicago. She was raised by her mother after her father returned to Palestine when she was 9, c...

• / Literary
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Hypertext Review is a biannual literary anthology of contemporary writing and is one program of the social justice nonprofit Hypertext Magazine & Studio (HMS). HMS empowers Chicago-area adults by teaching storytelling techniques to give them a voice ...