After years of searching, an exiled Afghan journalist encounters a beloved poet with whom she shares the loss...
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Freshta Jalalzai
In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Shahé Mankerian
In the latest This Arab Life column, Amal Ghandour ponders: who does a life actually belong to once...
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Our reviewer examines the Arab melancholy at the heart of Saleem Haddad’s second novel.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Layla AlAmmar
Many women and men long to raise children of their own, but is it primordial to be a...
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
A new anthology from Saqi Books explores LGBTQ+ Arabs and their families from ten points of view.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Zein Murib
For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Art Basel's debut in the SWANA region is more than a marketplace; it is a catalyst for Qatar's...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
In a world where justice and law reliably fail us, it might be literature that holds the better...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
In this tragicomic debut novel, a queer Palestinian refugee prepares to come out during his extravagant birthday dinner...
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Ziyad Saadi
Hasan Hadi delivers a remarkable neorealist fable about childhood, obedience, and survival under dictatorship.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
Lena El-Malak’s Stolen Nation is a robust examination of a neglected aspect of the Palestinian “question": reparations.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
