A writer's journeys, spiritual and physical, lead to a winding exploration of how to live beyond religious strictures...
22 MAY 2026 • By Sheana Ochoa
A prize-winning memoir brings alive three generations of diasporic Palestinians, from Gaza to New York City and back.
22 MAY 2026 • By N.S. Ahmed
In the latest This Arab Life column, Amal Ghandour ponders: who does a life actually belong to once...
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Maps are narratives of the past, present, and future, powerful chronicles of presence and absence, ownership and theft,...
29 AUGUST 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
A novel that explores taboo subjects with exceptional craftsmanship, while reconstructing the “self” from pain and fragmented identities.
8 AUGUST 2025 • By Ahmed Naji
A Gaza writer's creative, hopeful sister struggles to get her degree and build a family in the midst...
30 MAY 2025 • By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see...
2 MAY 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
After 13 years away, writer Odai Al Zoubi returns to Syria following the Assad regime's collapse, aiming to...
7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Odai Al Zoubi
Baxtyar Hamasur has dedicated his life to stories, even wearing a pair of story glasses. “I see everything...
7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Baxtyar Hamasur
Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews polyglot Tony Molho's memoir about the Holocaust in Greece and his family history.
18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Katie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.
3 MARCH 2024 • By Katie Logan
In tone, "Rotten Evidence" is cynical, bitterly funny, and oftentimes tender without ever being sentimental, writes Lina Mounzer.
12 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
