The power of the imagination may not be enough to save a young girl’s hopes when faced with...
2 JULY 2023 • By Mona Al-Shammari
Samira Azzam was a Palestinian short story writer whose work influenced her more famous successor, Ghassan Kanafani.
2 JULY 2023 • By Samira Azzam
In this excerpt from Shady Lewis Botros' latest novel, a child’s innocent counting game masks a disturbing reality.
2 JULY 2023 • By Shady Lewis Botros
A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey,...
19 JUNE 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
In a dystopian world, thanks to AI, people no longer die because they can be upgraded to better...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Fadi Zaghmout
Novelist Anis Shivani has lived in Houston for more than a decade and sets his upcoming novel amongst...
1 MAY 2023 • By Anis Shivani
If I hadn’t seen you, I might have forgotten all the wrongs of this world that belong to...
1 MAY 2023 • By Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan
Far from home, in inhospitable conditions, an unlikely friendship is struck.
2 APRIL 2023 • By Hany Ali Said
Novelist Omar El Akkad recounts a beguiling coming-of-age story set in Doha, where he grew up before the...
2 APRIL 2023 • By Omar El Akkad
Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Leila Aboulela
MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in...
5 MARCH 2023 • By MK Harb
Palestinian writer Samir El-Youssef, born in a refugee camp, tells the story of his family's uprooting from Lebanon.
5 MARCH 2023 • By Samir El-Youssef
