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Arabic

15 June, 2022 • Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine: “Remembering Nasser”

Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.

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15 June, 2022 • Dima Mikhayel Matta

Dima Mikhayel Matta: “This Text Is a Very Lonely Document”

A bold excerpt from the new Saqi anthology, "This Arab is Queer," in which a non-binary person from Lebanon explores solitude and family.

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15 June, 2022 • Sarah Kahly-Mills

Sarah Kahly-Mills: “The Salamander”

In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while a biologist seeks an elusive salamander.

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15 May, 2022 • Anton Shammas

Can the Bilingual Speak?

Anton Shammas — the Palestinian novelist who wrote the Hebrew-language "Arabeques" — attempts to sort himself.

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15 January, 2022 • Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour

Taming the Immigrant: Musings of a Writer in Exile

Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer" in exile in America.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.

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18 October, 2021 • A.J. Naddaff

The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

A.J. Naddaff   Between the Par­lia­ment and the Roy­al Path­way in the cen­ter of Brus­sels, not too far from the touris­tic Grand Place, there is a park with two par­al­lel… Continue reading The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged

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15 September, 2021 • Brahim El Guabli

My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

Brahim El Guabli   I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh lan­guage is my moth­er tongue. My moth­er is Black, and my father is Sahrawi. The only pic­ture I own… Continue reading My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

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15 August, 2021 • Menouar Merabtene

Beginnings, the Life & Times of “Slim” aka Menouar Merabtene

Algeria’s leading cartoonist reminisces on his start in bandes dessinées in Algeria, Poland and France.

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15 November, 2020 • Melissa Chemam

Why is Arabic Provoking such Controversy in France?

Melissa Chemam takes us inside the French controversy over Arabic and radical Islam.

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