Sometimes you have to escape everything you know in order to become yourself.
2 JULY 2023 • By Abdellah Taïa
Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Leila Aboulela
Who knows what drives anyone mad? For a sister who loves her big sister and emulates her, the...
15 JULY 2022 • By Asmaa Azaizeh
London-based journalist Layla Maghribi recalls her family dinners in Libyan, Palestinian and Syrian culinary traditions.
15 APRIL 2022 • By Fari Bradley
Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy