April is National Arab American Heritage Month. Below is a list of library resources for further exploration of Arab cultural and history.
Online
UC librarians Olga Hart and Sally Moffitt created two research guides with links to information related to the Arab world. The Arabic Languages and Cultures guide provides an overview of Arabic language, literature and culture resources at the University of Cincinnati. The Middle Eastern Studies guide offers suggestions for conducting cross-disciplinary research into the history, politics, culture and social structures in the modern Middle East. The guide focuses on the Middle East after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. With the exception of Egypt, North Africa is included only when that region is part of a more comprehensive survey of the Muslim Mediterranean world.
In the stacks
Sally Moffitt created the bibliography below highlighting Arabic-language fiction:
- Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction [Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies] PJ7694.E8A53 2006
- Arab Women Writers: an Anthology of Short Stories [Dalya Cohen-Mor] PJ7694.E8A719 2005
- Automobile Club of Egypt [ʻAlāʼ Aswānī trns. Russell Harris] PJ7814.S93N3313 2015
- Azazeel [Yūsuf Zaydān, trns. Jonathan Wright] PJ7876.A9155A9313
- Bamboo Stalk [Saʻūd Sanʻūsī, trns. Jonathan Wright] PJ7914.L73B36 2015
- A Bed for the King’s Daughter [Shahlā,ʻUjaylī, trns. Sawad Hussain] Cohen PJ7966.J39B43 2020
- Black Magic [Ḥamdī Jazzār trns. Humphrey Davies] PJ7940.A99S5713 2007
- Book of Safety: a Novel [Yāsir ʻAbd al-Ḥāfiz trns.Robin Moger] PJ7904.H2364K5813 2017
- Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria [Zakarīyā Tāmir trns. Ibrahim Muhawi] PJ7864.A384T3513 2008
- Butterfly Wings [Muḥammad Salmāwī trns. Raphael Cohen] PJ7862.A57673A7413 2014
- A Certain Woman [Hālah Badrī trns. Farouk Abdel Wahab] PJ7816.A35I47 2003
- Cities without Palms [Ṭāriq Ṭayyib trns. Kareem James Palmer-Zeid] PJ7864.A59M8313 2009
- Clamor of the Lake [Muḥammad Bisāṭī trns. Hala Halim] PJ7816.I76S2513 2004
- The Collar and the Bracelet [Yaḥyá al-Ṭāhir ʻAbd Allāh trns. Samah Selim] PJ7805.Y3T313 2008
- Critical Case of a Man Called K [‘Aziz Muhammad trns. Humphrey Davies] Cohen PJ7948.A95H3513 2021
- Dates on My Fingers [Muḥsin Ramlī trns. Luke Leafgren] PJ7960.A451T3613 2014
- Days in the Diaspora [Kamāl Ṣalāḥ Muḥammad Raḥīm trns. Sarah Enany] PJ7860.A415A9913 2012
- Disciples of Passion [Hudá Barakāt trns. Marilyn Booth] PJ7816.A672A6413 2005
- Director and Other Stories from Morocco [Laylá Abū Zayd trns. By the author] PJ7808.Z22D57 2005
- A Dog with No Tail [Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil trns. Robin Moger] PJ7808.J85F25513 2009
- Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs [ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Fārisī trns. Nancy Roberts] PJ7924.A75T3313 2013
- East Winds West Winds [Mahdī ʻĪsá Saqr trns. Paul Starkey] PJ7862.A6475R5913 2010
- Egyptian Assassin [Ezzedine C. Fishere trns. Jonathan Wright] PJ1949.F5713 2019
- Elusive Fox [Muhammad Zafzāf trns. Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen] PJ7876.I4T4313 2016
- Farewell, Damascus [Ghādah Sammān trns. Nancy Roberts] PJ7862.A584Y313 2017.
- Flights of Fantasy: Arabic Short Stories [Edited by Ceza Kassem and Malak Hashem] PJ7694.E8F55 1985
- Fragments of Memory: a Story of a Syrian Family [Ḥannā Mīnah trns. Olive Kenny and Lorne Kenny] PJ7846.I48F73 1993
- Fugitive Light [Muḥammad Barādah trns. Michael Beard] PJ7816.A6538D3913 2002
- God 99 [Hasan Balāsim trns. Jonathan Wright] Cohen PJ7916.A42G6613 2020
- Grub Hunter [Amīr Tāj al-Sirr trns. William Maynard Hutchins] PJ7964.A34S2513 2012
- Hunger [Muhammad Bisāṭī trns. Denys Johnson-Davies] PJ7816.I76J8 2014
- The Image, the Icon, and the Convent [Saḥar Khalīfah trns. Aida Bamia] PJ7842.H2938S9413 2008
- In Search of Walid Masoud [Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā trns. Roger Allen and Adnan Haydar] PJ7840.A322B3413 2000
- June Rain [Jabbūr Duwayhī trns. Paula Haydar] PJ7820.U92M3813 2014
- A Land of Stone and Thyme: an Anthology of Palestinian Short Stories [Edited by Nur and Abdelwahab Elmessiri] PJ8190.8.L36 1996
- Pistachio Seller [ Reem Bassiouney trns. Osman Nusairi] PJ7816.A768B3513 2009
- Return to Dar al-Basha [Nasr Hasan trns. William Hutchins] PJ7852.A685D3713 2006
- The Slave Yards [Najwá Ibn Shatwān trns. Nancy Roberts] Cohen PJ7936.S53Z3713 2020
- Naguib Mahfouz : his life and times [Rasheed El-Enany] PJ7846.A46 Z5963 2007
- Moving the palace [Charif Majdalani ; translated by Edward Gauvin] PQ3979.3.M34 C3713 2017
- Straight from the horse’s mouth [Meryem Alaoui ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan] PQ3989.3.A73515 V4713 2020
- The desert : or, The life and adventures of Jubair Wali al-Mammi [Albert Memmi ; translated from the French by Judith Roumani] PQ2625.E39 D413 2015
For additional works see series Middle East Literature in Translation or subject Arabic Literature—Translations into English in the Library Catalog.