Like a classic noir narrative in which morality blurs and truth is slippery, the world today feels increasingly absurd and nihilistic.
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Karim Goury revels in the new feature from Swedish Egyptian director Tarik Saleh.
15 NOVEMBER, 2022 • By Karim Goury
Egyptian writer Ahmed Awny divigates between fiction and reality in this decentering short story.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Ahmed Awny, Rana Asfour
Maisan Hamdan, a single Palestinian woman, attempts to survive in Berlin without a cell phone.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Maisan Hamdan, Rana Asfour
The world may be driving us crazy, but sharing our stories across cultures and borders is one way to hang on to our sanity.
15 JULY, 2022 • By TMR
A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to get ahead.
15 JULY, 2022 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Rana Asfour
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
