A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to...
15 JULY, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews Mai Al-Nakib's debut novel, in which the protagonist always thought she would leave her country.
27 JUNE, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
The Egyptian novelist and author of "Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison" finds versions of Islam in...
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
A preview of the new Arabic novel from the author of "I Killed Scheherazade" and "Superman is an...
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews Libyan-American author Hisham Matar's memoir of his time in Siena, Italy.
25 APRIL, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Nadifa Mohamed based on the true story of a wrongly-convicted...
7 MARCH, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh,...
14 FEBRUARY, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer"...
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming...
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.
10 JANUARY, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching...
29 NOVEMBER, 2021 • By Rana Asfour
Despite its repressive regimes, Saudi Arabia has produced a number of world-class novelists — several of whom have...
22 NOVEMBER, 2021 • By Rana Asfour
