Nine essential books by Arab writers

Louisa Ermelino is the Reviews Director at Publishers Weekly. Her most recent book is Malafemmena, a collection of stories, many of them set in the Middle East and Asia. One of her nine favorite books by Arab writers:The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees, trans. from the Arabic by Max Weiss

This novel was handed to me by the publisher, which doesn’t happen as often as you might think, and I