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Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent's new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent's new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.
David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and noir novels.
A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey, sometimes through exile.
Zein El-Amine reviews the first collection of "original, irreverent" short stories written in English by Egyptian writer Youssef Rahka.
Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews the newly-translated novel from Christos Chomenidis, which won the Greek National Book Award.
Nazli Tarzi reviews an adventure travel and climate change story of what humanity stands to lose with the death of a great river.
Hamilton Cain reviews a police procedural that connects Norfolk, Virginia with the late Iraq War and the streets of Mosul.
Bethlehem native and novelist Karim Kattan reviews the new book by Jacob Norris that tells the 19th century story of the town's evolution.
Sally AlHaq reviews the recent book by Yasmin El-Rifae on the history of sexual assault in Tahrir Square and what one group did to fight it.
Novelist R.P. Finch reviews the debut novel of Aisha Abdel Gawad, set in the "Arabland" of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Speaking of Arab revolutions, Tugrul Mende reviews a new book from Stanford looking back at revolutionaries of Dhufar, south Oman.
Deborah Williams reviews the new literary thriller from Rebecca Makkai that makes us question everything we know.
Rula Khateeb Jarallah reviews the news translation of the Mohammed Said Hjiouij novella in which a man is transformed into a monkey.
Clive Bell reviews the latest graphic novel from Mana Neyestani on the hardships of being a Kurdish porter.
Katie Logan reviews a familiar coming-of-age story elevated by deep thinking about the nature of history, empire and narrative.