M H Matar

Books

Over the last several years I’ve been writing fiction in the cracks between films — short novels, mystical fables, and graphic novels. Most of the work sits at the intersection of displacement, memory, and the long shadow of the Arab world’s twentieth century.

This list is widely incomplete. Earlier short stories, abandoned drafts, and a textbook on dramaturgy live mostly on hard drives and in notebooks.

  • For F*ck Sake Write — Book on writing.
  • Akiak — Book by M.H. Matar.
  • Rewriting Forty — Book by M.H. Matar.
  • Al Barzakh: eleven planets, the sun and the moon — A mystical journey through eleven planets, the sun and the moon. (Edit book)
  • Beyond All Love Is the Sea — A graphic novel about Seneca · Illustrated by Le Trung.
  • Novels

    • The Pigeon Whisperer (2020) — A novel about Dabbour, a Syrian refugee and pigeon herder.
      Dabbour spoke more easily to pigeons than to people. The birds, at least, never asked him where he was from. (Amazon)