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Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s Sololand features Three Novellas on Iraq

Hassan Blasim’s work is not imitation. His is a voice forged in exile, and steeped in the paradoxes...

25 APRIL 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as...

18 APRIL 2025 • By Sean Casey
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia

An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...

21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
Resistance and Revolution: on Ghassan Kanafani

Resistance and Revolution: on Ghassan Kanafani

Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.

14 MARCH 2025 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

In untangling her relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The Prophet" in new...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Katie Logan
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza—a Review

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza—a Review

In his new book, Peter Beinart proposes a single state solution that would balance equality for all Israeli...

28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By David N. Myers
Palestinian Equals Arab Equals Human: on Najwan Darwish

Palestinian Equals Arab Equals Human: on Najwan Darwish

The poetry of Najwan Darwish is “at once anti-nationalist yet profoundly and personally invested in the Palestinian cause."

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Eman Quotah
Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide

Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide

What two new books from Omar El Akkad and Mohammed El-Kurd tell us about the war on the...

14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

History writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a...

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Todd Reisz
Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Malu Halasa
“Culinary Palestine” — Fadi Kattan in an excerpt from Sumud

“Culinary Palestine” — Fadi Kattan in an excerpt from Sumud

Celebrity Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan presents stories and recipes from his long experience cooking in Bethlehem and beyond.

31 JANUARY 2025 • By Fadi Kattan
Yassini Girls—a Powerful Yet Flawed Account of Historical Trauma

Yassini Girls—a Powerful Yet Flawed Account of Historical Trauma

Natasha Tynes reviews a Palestinian novel that thoughtfully examines intergenerational trauma, making it an insightful and worthwhile read.

31 JANUARY 2025 • By Natasha Tynes
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