Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
Ghazi Gheblawi In 2017 Darf Publishers, an independent publishing company based in London, where I am a senior editor, published an anthology of young writers from Libya under the… Continue reading Mohammed al-Naas—a Young Libyan Novelist to Watch
The world may be driving us crazy, but sharing our stories across cultures and borders is one way to hang on to our sanity.
Who knows what drives anyone mad? For a sister who loves her big sister and emulates her, the mystery will perhaps never be resolved.
A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to get ahead.
You can run from grief and death until you lose your mind, but life is reserved for those who fight for it.
Youssef Rahka introduces us to his Egyptian friend Maged Zaher and his seventh volume of poetry, composed in English.
Ani Zonneveld, leader of a progressive Muslim organization, argues that the United States is sliding perilously toward theocracy.
Mischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental maladies.
Shahd Alshammari, a scholar of illness and disability, has written an extended study of literary madness.
Farah Abdessamad considers generations of survivors in Yemen's first experimental film.
Youssef Manessa reviews a short film from Ely Dagher that speaks to his generation of Lebanese born in the '90s.
Tugrul Mende reviews Shadh Alshammari's brave account of fighting MS and abelism.
A writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for Arabic.
Pierre Daum opines that despite a French museum's best effort, an exhibit on Algeria and France can't escape its colonial bias.
Fouad Mami on hunger striker Alaa Abd El-Fattah's new book, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated."