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What Will People Think? Blends Comedy, Culture and Family Secrets

What Will People Think? Blends Comedy, Culture and Family Secrets

Sara Hamdan's debut novel finds genuine humor in the complexities of Arab-American identity and friendships.

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Natasha Tynes
Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems

Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems

Celebrated Indian poet Sonnet Mondal presents work from his Copper Coin collection "An Afternoon in My Mind."

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Sonnet Mondal
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s Defiant Exploration of Palestinian Life

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s Defiant Exploration of Palestinian Life

Zahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their...

20 DECEMBER 2024 • By Zahra Hankir
Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection, "Book of Kin," follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of...

19 DECEMBER 2024 • By Darius Atefat-Peckham
Birth in a Poem: Maram Al-Masri’s The Abduction

Birth in a Poem: Maram Al-Masri’s The Abduction

When a mother loses her child she can become inconsolable, living a desolate life, as she works for...

23 AUGUST 2024 • By Eman Quotah
On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

On The Anthropologists—an interview with Aysegül Savas

Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.

26 JULY 2024 • By Amy Omar
Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

Excerpt from The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

In her new novel, much like an anthropologist, Ayşegül Savaş explores how people live, love and set down...

26 JULY 2024 • By Aysegul Savas
What Kind Of Liar Am I?—a Short Play

What Kind Of Liar Am I?—a Short Play

An original short play by playwright and theatre maker Mona Mansour: "a short, dark confession in a time...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Mona Mansour
Two Poems from Maram Al-Masri

Two Poems from Maram Al-Masri

Syrian poet in Paris presents two poems in Hélène Cardona's translation from the French from "The Abduction."

3 MARCH 2024 • By Maram Al-Masri
A Treatise on Love

A Treatise on Love

When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Maryam Haidari
The Day My Life Ended, It Began

The Day My Life Ended, It Began

What could have been the end of life was instead a milestone that led to the writer's greatest...

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Karim Shamshi-Basha
A Day in the Life: Cairo

A Day in the Life: Cairo

The writer's visit to a Cairo internet store to renew her internet service proves to be an out...

24 JULY 2023 • By Sarah Eltantawi
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