Youssef Rakha's novel asks big existential questions like “What should contemporary Islam look like?” but offers no easy answers.
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Writer Karim Kattan explores how love might be narrated in a manner that overcomes subjugation, suppression, and extermination.
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A poetry collection by a transformative Turkish voice explores questions of gender, queer desire, memory, and belonging.
31 JULY 2026 • By Efe Murad
Sinan Antoon’s self-translated novel explores the different ways memory unfolds in exile but offers no closure.
31 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
The true "serpent" of this novel, set against the shifting social landscape of contemporary Pakistan, may be its unexamined biases.
24 JULY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
A new book catalogues the architecture of Israeli military violence and displacement that have made Gaza unliveable.
17 JULY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
An exploration of how an Ottoman slave became the mother of a library on a Greek island — and what her descendants did with it.
26 JUNE 2026 • By Jacob Wirtschafter
Aida Zilelian’s first chapbook traces the survival of a people, but also reminds the reader of other genocides, past and present.
5 JUNE 2026 • By Sean Casey
Lebanon is a quiet, at times ominous, presence in A Sad and Beautiful World, an unexpected and moving romance.
5 June, 2026 • By Alex Demyanenko
Annemarie Jacir’s new film is big-tent entertainment, accented by a critical history of Anglo-Zionist collusion between the wars.
31 October, 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Tamara Stepanyan’s latest documentary, My Armenian Phantoms, interweaves film history with an intimate coming-of-age story.
17 October, 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Youssef Rakha's novel asks big existential questions like “What should contemporary Islam look like?” but offers no easy answers.
9 October, 2026 • By Nour Eldin H.
Writer Karim Kattan explores how love might be narrated in a manner that overcomes subjugation, suppression, and extermination.
9 October, 2026 • By Gaar Adams
A poetry collection by a transformative Turkish voice explores questions of gender, queer desire, memory, and belonging.
31 July, 2026 • By Efe Murad
