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Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer Iason Athnasiadis.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Maha Al Aswad sheds light on Egyptian writer Mohammad Hafez Ragab, a literary figure of the 1960s whose works have been vastly overlooked.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Maha Al Aswad, Rana Asfour
Omar Zahzah argues that Meta censors free speech for Palestine because it is a US dominant corporate platform that takes support for Israel for granted.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Omar Zahzah
Maged Mandour’s new book examines El-Sisi's exercise and abuse of power in post-revolutionary Egypt.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Elias Feroz
In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism, and freedom of expression.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor services.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein, Essam M. Al-Jassim
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his whereabouts.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space in the shade of a tree.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas, Rana Asfour
We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya Abdelrahman.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Karoline Kamel, Ranya Abdelrahman
Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick up any of these wonderful books.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Rana Asfour
