Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and...
15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life...
8 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
An excerpt from Sarah Mirk's graphic novel describes life in the infamous US prison in Cuba.
15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Sarah Mirk
Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
Excerpted from the anthology Kurdish Women’s Stories (Pluto Press, 2020), by special arrangement with editor Houzan Mahmoud. ...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Kobra Banehi
On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan...
16 AUGUST 2021 • By Mohja Kahf
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...
12 AUGUST 2021 • By Fouad Mami
Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.
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Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh's empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq...
4 JULY 2021 • By Jessica Proett
Travel the world, meet people, see great places, without ever leaving the comfort of your screen…well, in some...
3 JULY 2021 • By
Farah Abdessamad reviews a new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Hariri that revives the "eloquent rogue" genre...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Danielle Haque
Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we...
14 MARCH 2021 • By Preeta Samarasan
