Maged Mandour’s new book examines El-Sisi's exercise and abuse of power in post-revolutionary Egypt.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Elias Feroz
In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism,...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor...
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya...
5 JULY 2024 • By Karoline Kamel
Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick...
5 JULY 2024 • By Rana Asfour
Our literary editor takes us on a deluxe reader's tour of the stories behind the stories in the...
5 JULY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and...
5 JULY 2024 • By Qais Akbar Omar
The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
5 JULY 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
