Our reviewer examines the Arab melancholy at the heart of Saleem Haddad’s second novel.
20 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Layla AlAmmar
For Avi Shlaim and Gilbert Achcar, the genocide in Gaza is a turning point, one from which there...
13 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Lena El-Malak’s Stolen Nation is a robust examination of a neglected aspect of the Palestinian “question": reparations.
6 FEBRUARY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
In "This Arab Life," Amal Ghandour looks at the absurdity of Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Danger looms over this story, set in pre-Nakba Palestine, as a mother, distrustful of a foreigner's presence, tends...
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Sahar Mustafah
In today's dissonant reality, many countries feel like they need protection from Israel.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Sheryl Ono
Israeli settlement plans threaten a monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By A Mom from Bethlehem
Raja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Raja Shehadeh
Kamal Aljafari's new-old film historicizes Gaza in its demise.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Jim Quilty
Palestinian artists have long turned their people’s struggle into vibrant expression.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Gabriel Polley
Immediacy matters in this collection because it fundamentally alters how the poems should be read — not "about"...
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Sholeh Wolpé
Coffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.
30 JANUARY 2026 • By Esraa Abo Qamar
