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Marsa is an independent publishing house rooted in Egypt and the Mediterranean, publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and translation from across North Africa, the Middle East, Southern Europe and their diasporas.

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A small list on purpose. Each of our first four books arrived from a different direction.

Cover of Do Not Delete, a comedy noir novel by Jawhara Salem, published by Marsa Publishing.

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Do Not Delete

Jawhara Salem

Comedy noir · Novel

A darkly funny novel about ambition, succession and the things technology refuses to let us bury.

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Cover of Smoke and Saffron, a historical novel by Nagui Amir, published by Marsa Publishing.

December 2026

Smoke and Saffron

Nagui Amir

Historical fiction · Romantic comedy

Shipwrecked off Ottoman Sidon, a young woman disguises herself as a boy in the service of a lovesick Emir.

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Cover of The Architecture of Silence, a science fiction psychological thriller by Lucien Hassanein, published by Marsa Publishing.

January 2027

The Architecture of Silence

Lucien Hassanein

Science fiction · Psychological thriller

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