Ghada Karmi

About The Author

Ghada Karmi is a doctor of medicine by training and a specialist in the history of medieval Islamic medicine—a background that enabled her to research the period of the novel, using the original historical sources, and create the novel’s main characters, the caliph's physician, and the medicine he practised. Karmi has held a number of academic posts in Middle East history and politics, most recently at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK. She has published six books to date, including two memoirs of life in Palestine.

Books by Ghada Karmi

Palestine: The Reality

The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration

By J.M.N. Jeffries
Foreword by Ghada Karmi
A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917—its origins and its effects.

First published by Longman Green and Co, London, Palestine: The Reality had a short life due to the fact that the entire stock and the publisher’s premises were destroyed b...
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Murjana

A Novel of Medieval Baghdad

By Ghada Karmi
A tale of love and passion in medieval Baghdad.
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