In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West...
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Badar Salem
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
Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.
26 JULY 2024 • By Amy Omar
In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...
26 JULY 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
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
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya...
5 JULY 2024 • By Karoline Kamel
Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick...
5 JULY 2024 • By Rana Asfour
The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
5 JULY 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
