Arab Humor

Abe Hallaq has been driving for Triple-M car service for years, but his sights have always been set a little higher. Seeing an ad for a used limousine, he decides to take a chance, following his entrepreneurial spirit to create Rochester Limousine. Before he even puts the name out there, he picks up his first client, the glamorous wife of a successful local businessman. With her connections, and referrals from his old boss, he's starting to turn things around, creating a new life for himself. As an immigrant turned citizen, he's always tended to be pretty solitary, simultaneously missing ...

Arab American Book Award Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist 2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist 2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize “Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts...

Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved “girls” on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. He wakes one morning to find that something has attacked one of his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. Heartbroken, he soon learns that a mysterious swarm of vicious hornets committed the mass murder - but where did they come from, and how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save his bees from annihilation, Sidi must venture out into the village and then brave the big city and beyond in search of answers.

STEAMY SHEIKH ROMANCE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE. Nurse Eleanor Easton gets stuck with the nightshift on Christmas Eve . . . and she also gets stuck with the world’s most demanding patient: Sheikh Akbar, who after one look decides he's going to have to unwrap this curvy, full-figured nurse like she's his Christmas present! OMG! Steamy Contemporary with HEA!!

Bay Ann wants to shine. She's sure her moment in the spotlight has arrived when she wins the school talent show with a showstopping tap routine! But then her classmate and crush, Alyee Maq, causes her to wobble and almost fall. The video of him catching her goes viral, making Alyee an overnight sensation for "helping her." Bay Ann is reduced to her disability and her talent is ignored.

Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature—an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent.

Alexander McNabb's Dubai based blog, Fake Plastic Souks, has charted an erratic little course over the years. Like a wee pea green boat, it has bobbed on the waves of opulence and the stormy seas of the global financial crisis, throwing inane commentary and half-thoughts out for the benefit of a tiny audience. This wholly irrelevant collection contains the 'best of' the first two years of posts and charts the years 2007-2009 when Dubai was transformed from a city of jaw-dropping development projects, towers and island building to facing the new reality of global financial crisis..