Refuge

Fatema Alarabi was born in Bahrain and educated in the UK. She is an avid consumer of literature and a longtime admirer of Irish culture. Her other interests include art and travel. Inspired mainly by Sufism, Refuge is her first novel.

"From the Middle East to Ireland to the Middle East and back to Ireland, Fatema Alarabi’s tale is one of courage, resilience and beauty, told in the simplest of language. I read it in one sitting, just couldn’t put it down."---Noel King, poet and author of The Key Signature & Other Stories

• Sea of Graves...........................................................................Milk and Honey ........................................................................Scheherazade ..........................................................................Flora, Fauna and Merryweather ................................................Pomegranate Trees ...................................................................A Bird at Twilight ........................................................................Umm Kulthum.............................................................................Copper Stallions...........................................................................Bougainvillea ................................................................................Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing ........................................................The Unwelcome...........................................................................Emerald Cliffs ..............................................................................Dear, Dirty Dublin ......................................................................Home Sweet Home.....................................................................Runaway Riyadh...........................................................................Table for One...............................................................................A Fish Out of Water...................................................................Off to the Oscars ........................................................................Cillian’s Vet Hospital ...................................................................Porcelain Figurines ......................................................................Nirvana..........................................................................................Pets Out of Poverty ....................................................................Rags to Riches .............................................................................O Come, All Ye Faithful.............................................................Three Drops in an Ocean ..........................................................Birds of a Feather........................................................................Twin Minarets ..............................................................................Hoopoes........................................................................................Dublin Snow.................................................................................God Takes and God Gives ........................................................Daisy, Daisy ..................................................................................Haifa..............................................................................................Crescent Moon.............................................................................Homing Pigeons ..........................................................................Adam and Eve..............................................................................Impending Adieus .......................................................................Pink Booties .................................................................................The Yew ........................................................................................Waves on a Beach ........................................................................Rockabye .......................................................................................Zamzam ........................................................................................Baba ...............................................................................................The Fairest in the Land ..............................................................An Off-Kilter Rainbow ..............................................................Chamseddine ................................................................................Charcoal Reflections ...................................................................Wallah ..........................................................................................Gold from a Furnace ............................................................... Daffodils....................................................................................