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.

• 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....................................................................................

"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