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You Drive Me Crazy, from “Bride of the Sea”

You Drive Me Crazy, from “Bride of the Sea”

In this debut novel Eman Quotah practically delivers an epic as she writes about a Saudi family, torn...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Faraj Bayrakdar
Hassan Blasim’s “God 99”

Hassan Blasim’s “God 99”

God 99 blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. It blends the fantastic with...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Eman Quotah
Children of the Ghetto, My Name Is Adam

Children of the Ghetto, My Name Is Adam

With Children of the Ghetto, My Name is Adam, a lyrical story about Palestine's 1948 exodus, Elias Khoury...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Hassan Blasim
History of Tehran: What Lies Beneath

History of Tehran: What Lies Beneath

One of Iran's most venerable journalists and editors gives us an insider's history of one of the world's...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Elias Khoury
Algiers, Algeria in the novel “Our Riches”

Algiers, Algeria in the novel “Our Riches”

Kaouther Adimi's historical novel departs from a famous Algerian bookstore with a connection to Albert Camus and opens a...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Masoud Behnoud
Shahla Ujayli’s “Summer With the Enemy”

Shahla Ujayli’s “Summer With the Enemy”

War-torn Syria isn't just about headlines. In this new novel from Shahla Ujayli, the country comes alive as...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Kaouther Adimi
Shahla Ujayli’s “Summer With the Enemy”

Shahla Ujayli’s “Summer With the Enemy”

War-torn Syria isn’t just about headlines. In this new novel from Shahla Ujayli, the country comes alive as...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Kaouther Adimi
Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction: Eleven Artists from the Middle East*

Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction: Eleven Artists from the Middle East*

Landscape is a charged notion in the Middle East—even the geographical term Middle East is not neutral, but...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Anne-Marie O'Connor
The Mysteries of Translation in “Stranger Fictions”

The Mysteries of Translation in “Stranger Fictions”

Europe is the center of the world and has the literature to prove it. Or is it? Arabic...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Nat Muller
Freedom is femininity: Faraj Bayrakdar

Freedom is femininity: Faraj Bayrakdar

18 years in the making, this winter Upset Press will publish a new volume of poems by former...

14 DECEMBER 2020 • By Rebecca C. Johnson
An Outsider’s Long Goodbye

An Outsider’s Long Goodbye

I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth. But what happened...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Annia Ciezadlo
Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World

Wajdi Mouawad, Just the Playwright for Our Dystopian World

Wajdi Mouawad has shaken Western theatre out of its rigid rules, bringing a dream-infused approach, odes to childhood's...

15 SEPTEMBER 2020 • By Melissa Chemam
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