In which Philip Grant muses on Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s tenth century cookbook, "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭabīkh" and cooking and baking...
15 APRIL 2022 • By Philip Grant
Karén Jallatyan reviews the book of Beirut's Armenian community with photography by Ara Oshagan and an essay by...
11 APRIL 2022 • By Rachid Bouhamidi
Sherine Elbanhawy finds that Mohamed Metwalli’s newly-translated poetry collection is the perfect form of escapism.
28 MARCH 2022 • By janinedigiovanni
Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy
Women's rights activist Maryam Zar reviews the memoir by a valiant survivor of ISIS who won the Nobel...
7 MARCH 2022 • By Myriam Gurba
Rana Asfour reviews the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Nadifa Mohamed based on the true story of a wrongly-convicted...
7 MARCH 2022 • By TMR
Writer-translator Nada Ghosn talks to the illustrator of a new graphic novel recounting one of Tunisia's earliest uprisings,...
21 FEBRUARY 2022 • By I. Rida Mahmood
Amazigh Moroccan poet El Habib Louai reviews a recent anthology that has warmed the hearts of English-reading Moroccans...
31 JANUARY 2022 • By El Habib Louai
Mehnaz Afridi reviews the new book of short stories by a Pakistani American writer determined to disrupt her...
31 JANUARY 2022 • By Lorraine Ali
Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on...
24 JANUARY 2022 • By Nouha Homad
Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By TMR
Author and SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar reviews the latest book from Gaza scholar Sara Roy.
10 JANUARY 2022 • By Basil Al-Adraa
