An Unnecessary WomanAaliya saleh lives alone in her beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage'. Every year, she translates a new favourite book into arabic, then stows it away. The thirty seven books that aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read by anyone. This breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman follows aaliya's digressive mind as it