Book Reviews

Poetic Justice: 70+ Contemporary Poets of Morocco

Poetic Justice: 70+ Contemporary Poets of Morocco

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
Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

Hananah Zaheer’s “Lovebirds”? Don’t Be Fooled by the Title

Mehnaz Afridi reviews the new book of short stories by a Pakistani American writer determined to disrupt her...

31 JANUARY 2022 • By Lorraine Ali
Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

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
Gaza Melancholic

Gaza Melancholic

Author and SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar reviews the latest book from Gaza scholar Sara Roy.

10 JANUARY 2022 • By Basil Al-Adraa
Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

Temptations of the Imagination: how Jana Elhassan and Samar Yazbek transmogrify the world

Rana Asfour provides an intimate look at two new Arab novels in translation, from Lebanese and Syrian authors.

10 JANUARY 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Recovering/Remembering Love, Sex and Trauma

Recovering/Remembering Love, Sex and Trauma

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi follows her novels "Fra Keeler" and "Call Me Zebra" with a story set...

13 DECEMBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching...

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Asfour
Three Banned Saudi Novels Everyone Should Read

Three Banned Saudi Novels Everyone Should Read

Despite its repressive regimes, Saudi Arabia has produced a number of world-class novelists — several of whom have...

22 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Rana Asfour
The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and...

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
The Ignominy of Guantánamo: a History of Torture

The Ignominy of Guantánamo: a History of Torture

Marian Janssen, biographer of a forthcoming volume on the flamboyant American poet Carolyn Kizer, reviews the new memoir...

8 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Gil Anidjar
 
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