A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey,...
JUNE 19, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Malu Halasa finds unexpected tastes, pleasures and upsets at the 2023 London Book Fair.
MAY 1, 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Arab writer Nashwa Nasreldin reflects on her work experiences at home and abroad, and on the meaning of...
MAY 1, 2023 • By Nashwa Nasreldin
An Athens native returns to Greece after a 20-year sojourn across the Mediterranean and Middle East, covering turmoil...
MARCH 5, 2023 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Malu Halasa surveys the legacy of Al Saqi while also lamenting the end of Banipal Magazine and the...
JANUARY 16, 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Hanif Kureishi reminisces on how he came to write his first novel, a coming-of-age saga set in 1970s...
NOVEMBER 15, 2022 • By Fadi Zaghmout
Ghazi Gheblawi reviews "The Darkness Inside," a literary thriller set in the world of social media and foreign...
OCTOBER 3, 2022 • By Nadje Al-Ali
The filmmaker behind "Tell Spring Not to Come This Year" and "A Thousand Fires" journeys with Mohammad Bakri...
JUNE 15, 2022 • By Saeed Taji Farouky
Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming...
JANUARY 15, 2022 • By TMR
"What a British person imagined Syria or the Middle East to be ... was more important than what...
DECEMBER 6, 2021 • By Rana Haddad
