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Mischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental maladies.
15 JULY, 2022 • By Mischa Geracoulis
A writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for Arabic.
11 JULY, 2022 • By Ayelet Tsabari
The Egyptian novelist and author of "Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison" finds versions of Islam in the Nevada desert.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour
A preview of the new Arabic novel from the author of "I Killed Scheherazade" and "Superman is an Arab."
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Joumana Haddad, Rana Asfour
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Rabih Alameddine
One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Alireza Iranmehr
In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while a biologist seeks an elusive salamander.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
A wayward daughter leaves Boston to spend a summer back home in Cairo, where she observes the decline of her once prominent family.
15 JUNE, 2022 • By Amany Kamal Eldin
Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer" in exile in America.
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Ahmed Naji, Rana Asfour
Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for asylum in Europe.
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming a refugee preoccupied her life for more than 20 years.
15 JANUARY, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
A.J. Naddaff reviews the latest work of creative nonfiction by Lebanon's Charif Majdalani, as his nation teeters on the edge of the abyss.
15 NOVEMBER, 2021 • By A.J. Naddaff
