Why Isn’t Ghaith Abdul-Ahad a Household Name?
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent's new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the Iraqi correspondent's new memoir on Middle East wars and asks questions.
Yousef M. Aljamal surmises renewed attacks on Jenin signal Israel's intention to end Palestinian hopes for statehood.
Jordanian Rabee’ Zureikat is on a mission to restore severed links to the Arab past by reviving a musical heritage, one nay at a time.
Books continue to be a mainstay in Beirut, although bookshops are resorting to survival strategies.
Philip Grant took a look at a vast Los Angeles art exhibition that presents 75 independent Arab and Muslim women artists.
Christina Paschyn talks to queer activists in the Gulf who challenge the Western narrative on oppression and freedom for the LGBTQ community.
Journalist and filmmaker Dima Hamdan talks to the young Syrian director of the documentary "All Roads Lead to More."
David Rife reviews the latest fiction from the Sudanese British author of more than a dozen literary and noir novels.
An art critic comments on the 10th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests with an overview of a decade of corresponding Turkish art.
A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey, sometimes through exile.
A walk through London’s Hackney Marshes calls forth stories of Gaza, the Nile, the Sindhu River and the Thames.
Zein El-Amine reviews the first collection of "original, irreverent" short stories written in English by Egyptian writer Youssef Rahka.
Arie Amaya-Akkermans recounts the history of Beirut's museum, with its multiple destructions and resurrections.
Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews the newly-translated novel from Christos Chomenidis, which won the Greek National Book Award.
Nazli Tarzi reviews an adventure travel and climate change story of what humanity stands to lose with the death of a great river.