Emotions of modern romance are found in Alaa Hasanin’s "The Love That Doubles Loneliness," translated from Arabic by...
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Alaa Hassanien
Bilingual poems, in Arabic and English, from Iman Mersal (Egypt), Ines Abassi (Tunisia) and Ashjan Hendi (Saudi Arabia).
11 OCTOBER 2023 • By Sarah Coolidge
The Markaz Book Club reads Leila Aboulela's critically-acclaimed novel "River Spirit" and meets the author on Sept. 24.
8 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite...
4 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By TMR
Malu Halasa's story takes place on one day in the life of the family patriarch who confronts memories...
3 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Ambassador Chas Freeman on the dynamism of West Asia and the west's failing geopolitical grip on "the greater...
14 AUGUST 2023 • By Chas Freeman, Jr.
In Ghadeer Ahmed's latest story, three women with no abortion rights refuse to be victims of exploitation and...
2 JULY 2023 • By Ghadeer Ahmed
In this excerpt from Shady Lewis Botros' latest novel, a child’s innocent counting game masks a disturbing reality.
2 JULY 2023 • By Shady Lewis Botros
EMISSARIES is a new volume of original, irreverent short stories from Cairo-based author Youssef Rakha. Meet him and...
21 JUNE 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
