Books

There was a moment during Saturday’s Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) workshop in Oxford that could’ve been called the “Humphrey Davies & Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq fan ……Read More

Hazek’s December 2014 message from prison, “A Christmas tree in my cell,” has been newly translated by his sister, Zahraa Abd Al Aziz: Omar Hazek ……Read More

An ArabLit review of Najwa Barakat’s Oh, Salaam! is now up at Full Stop:  For many of us, war doesn’t affect daily life — or, at least, skimming ……Read More

I was excited, very excited, when I laid my hands on the book Delhi 4 Shows – Talkies of Yesteryear. After all, I was made ……Read More

Fadi Zaghmout’s second novel, Paradise on Earth, takes readers eighty-odd years into the future, imagining a Jordan where we have control over the aging process: By Jona Fras ……Read More

This week, in the Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, Rula Jurdi Abisaab has a review of Sinan Antoon’s The Poetics of the ……Read More