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
A prize-winning memoir brings alive three generations of diasporic Palestinians, from Gaza to New York City and back.
22 MAY 2026 • By N.S. Ahmed
A dark political satire draws heavily on Fanon's writing but shifts the focus from abstract revolution to lived...
22 MAY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
The ghostly presence of the Nakba casts an ominous shadow over this newly translated novel by a former...
15 MAY 2026 • By Francesca Vawdrey
Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man offer an idealistic framework to break the stalemate in Palestine.
17 APRIL 2026 • By Mya Guarnieri
The protagonist is a complete individual, but also a product of forces that have shaped and exiled many...
20 MARCH 2026 • By Eman Quotah
Loubna Mrie's memoir of personal rebellion and political awakening unfurls in Syria before, during and after the revolution.
20 MARCH 2026 • By Anna Lekas Miller
Our reviewer examines the Arab melancholy at the heart of Saleem Haddad’s second novel.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Layla AlAmmar
A new anthology from Saqi Books explores LGBTQ+ Arabs and their families from ten points of view.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Zein Murib
For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Lena El-Malak’s Stolen Nation is a robust examination of a neglected aspect of the Palestinian “question": reparations.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
Immediacy matters in this collection because it fundamentally alters how the poems should be read — not "about"...
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Sholeh Wolpé
