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
After surviving an Egyptian prison and obtaining asylum in the United States, Ahmed Naji contemplates wasta and standing...
14 JUNE 2021 • By Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews Faysal Khartash's Roundabout of Death and Zeyn Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars.
30 MAY 2021 • By Rana AsfourRana Asfour reviews the new novel by Hala Alyan, revisiting the city that marked her and the author...
9 MAY 2021 • By Rana Asfour
BookFabulous' Rana Asfour delivers capsule reviews of three recent North African novels from Libya and Morocco.
25 APRIL 2021 • By Rana Asfour
Rana Asfour reviews a documentary by Nezar Andary on the Syrian auteur filmmaker, Muhammad Malas.
10 JANUARY 2021 • By Rana Asfour
The Punishment is a first-person account from an author who considers writers to be "witnesses of history."
15 OCTOBER 2020 • By Rana Asfour
