Hajar Press
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Hajar Press is a new independent press that publishes politically-engaged works by writers of colour that often defy easy categorisation, blending fiction, poetry and essay. Lola Olufemi’s Experiments in Imagining Otherwise is already a Bookshop bestseller; discover the rest of their titles below.
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On the warp and weft of strange intimacies, where boundaries meet and affinities form.How much distance and difference can intimacy hold? How much proximity and likeness does it require? What can we learn from its capacities? And what could…
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‘A beautiful consideration of devotion to faith, family and politics … Manzoor-Khan’s exacting thoughtfulness shines throughout.’— The SkinnyWhy do we yearn to be seen when we are already far too visible? How…
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How could addiction remake the world?Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass is an exercise in meaning-making, a thinking-out-loud. Waithera Sebatindira unravels how it feels to live as an addict under capitalism, pondering how engaging…
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A vital community resource for those who dream of building a just, caring, prison-free society.‘A starting point for anyone interested in learning more about abolition.’— gal-dem‘Brick by Brick is devoted to…
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Reflective essays on revolutionary brokenheartedness.‘We, the Heartbroken reckons with loss and grief’s fullness and its surprising abilities to make us alive to one another … entranced by one another again. We are called…
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Who would protest in heaven?‘A remarkable work of political imagination … Unapologetically dense and rich.’— The SkinnyTwenty years after she first chanted in Tahrir, Hanan’s son is living under military rule…
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An explosive collection of myths and musings on the body, desire and power.‘Riotously abandon[s] the narrative structures to which we have accustomed ourselves … point[s] to the fluidity of form and its political…
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Meditations on treasure and mourning—and why our belongings can matter so deeply.Finalist for the Alice James Book Award 2020, the Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize 2020 & the Philip Levine Poetry Prize 2020. ‘A moving…
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A vivid, haunting tale of intergenerational trauma and survival under Israeli occupation.A New Arab Book of the Year 2021.The year is 1968. The recent Arab defeat in the Naksa has led to the loss of all of historic Palestine. In the midst…
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‘An extraordinary book—written with compassion, fearlessness and determination to imagine a more equal world into being. A joy to read and to think with.’ — The New Statesman‘Lola’s writing ... makes me…
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Tender yet brutal vignettes on a girlhood in Gaza, Palestine, filled with honey and warmth.A White Review Book of the Year 2021.A Middle East Eye Book of the Year 2021.A New Arab Book of the Year 2021.Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies is…
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A meditative collection of poems and short stories, contemplating turbulence and repose.Known for their bitter taste, neem leaves have been used for centuries in South Asian traditional medicine. In The Leaf of the Neem Tree, Jamal Mehmood…
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Who was that kid in the corner of your eye…?The fovea centralis is a small depression in the retina that produces our sharpest vision. In this keenly perceptive chapbook, Sarah Lasoye ruminates on moments from the playground to the…
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