Columnist Lorraine Ali remembers 2021 as the year of the January 6 insurrection, the Covid-19 pandemic and the...
DECEMBER 27, 2021 • By Jenny Pollak
A family tragedy (we all have them), powerful forms of devotion and love, and a common political approach...
DECEMBER 27, 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
180,000 electronic music aficionados attended the SOUNDSTORM festival in Riyadh this month, but as columnist Melissa Chemam writes,...
DECEMBER 20, 2021 • By Melissa Chemam
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi follows her novels "Fra Keeler" and "Call Me Zebra" with a story set...
DECEMBER 13, 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
The powerhouse United Arab Emirates has just fêted 50 years as a country, and 10-year resident Deborah Williams...
DECEMBER 13, 2021 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Selling off your beloved book collection to pay the rent hurts, but it beats starving or being out...
DECEMBER 13, 2021 • By weglot-editor
"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what...
DECEMBER 6, 2021 • By Rana Haddad
Jenine Abboushi inaugurates a new monthly column with a story about a prominent family that lost everything in...
NOVEMBER 29, 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching...
NOVEMBER 29, 2021 • By TMR
British-Syrian novelist Rana Haddad compares her experience growing up in Syria with the way people beyond Syria's borders...
NOVEMBER 29, 2021 • By Rana Haddad