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Book Club: Women in Translation Month is an international, intersectional initiative based around women having their voices heard. To celebrate this month, °®Âþµº has compiled a list of our favourite translations from Arabic to English.

Book Club: Al-Andalus, the Muslim Civilisation of the Iberian Peninsula, has often been viewed as a golden period of religious tolerance. With incidents of Islamophobia increasing across Europe, what can Europeans learn from the 700-year rule?

Book Club: Echoing the works of Tawfik al-Hakim, Ashraf El-Ashmawi's novel is a stinging account of Egyptian rural society where religious lines and political corruption blight the lives of those that strive for justice.

Book Club: Placed on the frontline of great upheaval, early 20th century Aleppo is at a crossroads. Khalid Khalifa's latest novel poetically portrays a Syrian society on the edge: on the one hand expectant, on the other fearful of what may come next.

Book Club: Set in a rapidly vanishing world of Iraqi opulence, Elizabeth Loudon’s debut novel unravels the romantic ignorance and modern deceit of the mid-twentieth century, told through the lens of the dying embers of colonialism.

Book Club: In war, no matter who wins, the people lose. Vietnamese poet and author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's second novel poetically reveals the hidden tragedies of the Vietnam War through the sagas of two Vietnamese sisters and an American soldier.

Book Club: A story of diaspora, drama and displacement, Enter Ghost is a thought-provoking and utterly captivating novel about the tragedy of the Palestinian experience. It is also about how those affected can resist in unique and effective ways.

Book Club: Recipient of the Naguib Mahfouz prize for Arab literature, Ahmed Taibaoui's debut novel is a grim introspective of a poverty-stricken Algiers. Set in post-civil war Algeria, Taibaoui's noir offering is an intense, must-read page-turner.

Book Club: The turbulence, trauma and turmoil caused by the final days of colonial rule divide communities and pit loved ones against each other. In Leila Aboulela's latest novel, we are forced to come to terms with the complexities of motivation.

Book Club: Michael Christopher Low's luminous study shows how public health and travel concerns became conduits in the battle of Anglo-Ottoman regional legitimacy, therefore quelling anti-colonial activism within the context of the Hajj pilgrimage.