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Name
- Byline, as it should be printed
- Ilhem Belkherchouche
- Byline in Arabic
- إلهام بلخرشوش
- Publisher
- Self-published by the author, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. No imprint.
Bios
- Short, 40 words
- Ilhem Belkherchouche writes literary fiction about family, memory and the things that go unsaid. She is the author of The Woman from Nowhere and The Land We Leave Behind. She lives in the United Arab Emirates.
- Long, 90 words
- Ilhem Belkherchouche writes literary fiction rooted in North Africa: novels about family, land, memory, and the arrangements families make with silence. Her first novel, The Woman from Nowhere, is a fair-play detective story set in the Kabylie mountains of Algeria. The Land We Leave Behind is a story of inheritance and what daughters are asked to give away. She writes in English and in Arabic and translates her own work between the two. She publishes from Abu Dhabi.
Covers
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- The Land We Leave Behind
1800 x 2700 px · 1.2 MB JPEG
- The Woman from Nowhere
1600 x 2400 px · 552 KB JPEG
The books
The Land We Leave Behind. A Novel of Family, Land, and Inheritance in Algeria
A deed signed in her father's own hand, three brothers who want it renounced, and a mother who signed away her own inheritance at seventeen and never once said so out loud.
| Genre | Literary fiction |
|---|---|
| eBook | $9.99 list · ISBN 978-9948-611-45-5 · ASIN B0HCN9VNQP · 3 August 2026 |
| Paperback | Forthcoming · 378 pages |
| Arabic | الأرض التي نتركها. Translated in full by the author. Not yet published. |
| Page | /books/the-land-we-leave-behind/ |
The Woman from Nowhere. A Detective Tiziri Benyacine Mystery
A nameless dead woman, a note in a foreign tongue, and a valley that insists she is a stranger, yet keeps describing one of its own.
| Genre | Literary crime |
|---|---|
| eBook | $9.50 list · ISBN 978-9948-611-00-4 · ASIN B0H5W6DRNT · 21 June 2026 |
| Paperback | 145 pages · $19.99 list · ISBN 9798182275187 · ASIN B0H67SGXB2 · 19 June 2026 |
| Arabic | المرأة القادمة من العدم. Translated in full by the author. Not yet published. |
| Page | /books/the-woman-from-nowhere/ |
Interviews and review copies
Write to contact@ilhembelkherchouche.com. Say which book, which format, and roughly when you need it. Interviews by email, and by voice if you would rather.