Celebrating the 19th Rencontre des Arts du Monde Arabe, Festival Arabesques will be held from September 10 to...
30 AUGUST 2024 • By Laëtitia Soula
Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
When a mother loses her child she can become inconsolable, living a desolate life, as she works for...
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Eman Quotah
Cory Oldweiler reviews the debut story collection by Farhad Pirbal, one of Kurdistan's iconic writers, now out from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Cory Oldweiler
Alex Tan reviews a sci-fi anthology set in Egypt where all the writers aim to uplift the country...
2 AUGUST 2024 • By Alex Tan
Sophie Kazan reviews a new book on the late Nabil Kanso, the Lebanese pacifist artist whose work depicted...
2 AUGUST 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Jasmin Attia's novel vividly portrays Egypt and Cairo by beautifully conjuring music and sound through descriptive prose.
28 JUNE 2024 • By Tala Jarjour
Farah-Silvana Kanan questions whether, in this novel, the Franco-Lebanese master is at the height of his powers, or...
14 JUNE 2024 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of...
31 MAY 2024 • By Katherine A. Powers
A classic prison novel by Wisam Rafeedie recounts the revolutionary fervor of Palestinian political prisoners.
19 APRIL 2024 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
In tone, "Rotten Evidence" is cynical, bitterly funny, and oftentimes tender without ever being sentimental, writes Lina Mounzer.
12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
All the pasts of war are still contemporary, and continue shaping the present, killing its denizens, and erasing...
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans