Kurdish poetry abounds but rarely appears in English. Jordan Elgrably reviews a bilingual English-Kurdish edition of Selim Temo's...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Cory Oldweiler reviews the debut story collection by Farhad Pirbal, one of Kurdistan's iconic writers, now out from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Cory Oldweiler
Alex Tan reviews a sci-fi anthology set in Egypt where all the writers aim to uplift the country...
2 AUGUST 2024 • By Alex Tan
Sophie Kazan reviews a new book on the late Nabil Kanso, the Lebanese pacifist artist whose work depicted...
2 AUGUST 2024 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
In the 1970s Israel's Black Panthers rocked the establishment and brought the rampant discrimation against Arab Jews to...
19 JULY 2024 • By Ilan Benattar
Selma Dabbagh reviews Avi Shlaim's memoir about his coming-of-age as an Iraqi Jew, living as a minority in...
19 JULY 2024 • By Selma Dabbagh
Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with...
5 JULY 2024 • By Katie Logan
Jasmin Attia's novel vividly portrays Egypt and Cairo by beautifully conjuring music and sound through descriptive prose.
28 JUNE 2024 • By Tala Jarjour
Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...
28 JUNE 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Little-reported green colonialism is occurring in the sun-rich but water-deprived MENA region, writes Richard Lim in this review.
21 JUNE 2024 • By Richard Lim
Farah-Silvana Kanan questions whether, in this novel, the Franco-Lebanese master is at the height of his powers, or...
14 JUNE 2024 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of...
31 MAY 2024 • By Katherine A. Powers
