Books

A collection of Jordanian short stories (and two novel excerpts) is reviewed in the New York Daily News and on Arab Hyphen: The collection — Snow in ……Read More

When blogger Fadi Zaghmout’s debut novel, Bride of Amman, was released in Arabic in 2012, it was good medicine: It wasn’t just the novel itself, ……Read More

The celebrated Yemeni author Ali al-Muqri’s Hurma, trans. T.M. Aplin (2015), is his first novel to appear in English. Some preliminary thoughts about the novel: ……Read More

Moroccans, Emiratis, and Egyptians all forged new links during this year’s Beijing International Book Fair, which ended August 30: The Egyptian contingent at this year’s ……Read More

Following in the footsteps of Samandal and Toktok, among others, “Twins Cartoon” — the pen name of cartoonists Mohamed and Haitham Rafaat — has launched ……Read More

“Who’s Shakespeare?” a character asks in a new translation of Tunisian-Swedish writer Jonas Hassan Khemiri’s Invasion: Arab adaptations and appropriations of the bard are numerous; Margaret Litvin looks ……Read More