Book Reviews

An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as...

18 APRIL 2025 • By Sean Casey
Read These Books by Arab American Authors

Read These Books by Arab American Authors

An inspiring collection of remarkable titles to mark Arab American Heritage Month in the US, showcasing vibrant culture...

4 APRIL 2025 • By Rana Asfour
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel for Our Present Dystopia

An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its...

21 MARCH 2025 • By Deborah Williams
Insurrection of the Spirit: Algeria’s Resistance Poet Anna Gréki

Insurrection of the Spirit: Algeria’s Resistance Poet Anna Gréki

Gréki’s poetry expresses her deep love for Algeria while also serving as a powerful tribute to resistance against...

21 MARCH 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Resistance and Revolution: on Ghassan Kanafani

Resistance and Revolution: on Ghassan Kanafani

Two new books reissue the writings of the heralded revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani. Required reading for today.

14 MARCH 2025 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

In making sense of her own relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Katie Logan
The World After Gaza—a Review

The World After Gaza—a Review

Technology, rational division of labor, and deference to authority enabled ordinary people to contribute to acts of mass...

28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Selma Dabbagh
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza—a Review

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza—a Review

In his new book, Peter Beinart proposes a single state solution that would balance equality for all Israeli...

28 FEBRUARY 2025 • By David N. Myers
Palestinian Equals Arab Equals Human: on Najwan Darwish

Palestinian Equals Arab Equals Human: on Najwan Darwish

The poetry of Najwan Darwish is “at once anti-nationalist yet profoundly and personally invested in the Palestinian cause."

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Eman Quotah
Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide

Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide

What two new books from Omar El Akkad and Mohammed El-Kurd tell us about the war on the...

14 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

Resilient Cartographies: Histories of the Persian Gulf

History writing opens the door for the writers and their readers to see the Persian Gulf as a...

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Todd Reisz
Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Memories of Palestine through Contemporary Media

Malu Halasa reviews a psycho-social-virtual memoir of Palestine of both emotional and geographic proportions.

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Malu Halasa
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