In Ibtisam Azem's new novel, absurdity becomes the only way to explore the current Palestinian condition.
16 OCTOBER 2026 • By Ilham Essalih
Youssef Rakha's novel asks big existential questions like “What should contemporary Islam look like?” but offers no easy...
9 OCTOBER 2026 • By Nour Eldin H.
Writer Karim Kattan explores how love might be narrated in a manner that overcomes subjugation, suppression, and extermination.
9 OCTOBER 2026 • By Gaar Adams
Poet Fady Joudah refuses the familiar grammar of witnessing, rendering Palestinian life as a living archive of intimacy...
2 OCTOBER 2026 • By Issam Zineh
This debut novel centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Matt Broomfield
Gripping, heartbreaking, and resolute, this debut memoir affirms the human intellect as a site of resistance.
11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Yasmine El Rashidi
A poetry collection by a transformative Turkish voice explores questions of gender, queer desire, memory, and belonging.
31 JULY 2026 • By Efe Murad
Sinan Antoon’s self-translated novel explores the different ways memory unfolds in exile but offers no closure.
31 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
The true "serpent" of this novel, set against the shifting social landscape of contemporary Pakistan, may be its...
24 JULY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
A new book catalogues the architecture of Israeli military violence and displacement that have made Gaza unliveable.
17 JULY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
Aida Zilelian’s first chapbook traces the survival of a people, but also reminds the reader of other genocides,...
5 JUNE 2026 • By Sean Casey
A writer's journeys, spiritual and physical, lead to a winding exploration of how to live beyond religious strictures...
22 MAY 2026 • By Sheana Ochoa
