This anthology, while celebrating last year's best literary translations, aims to highlight writing from and about a world...
9 MAY 2025 • By Lara Vergnaud
Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...
9 MAY 2025 • By Elena Pare
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
In post-regime Syria, forgiveness is not resolution—it’s a quiet demand for justice in the language of art.
18 APRIL 2025 • By Robert Bociaga
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
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
Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.
14 MARCH 2025 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
In untangling her relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The Prophet" in new...
7 MARCH 2025 • By Katie Logan
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
Jim Quilty interviews Paris-based Gazan artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut about his new show, "Just in Case" at...
21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
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
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
