Books

There are at least a half-dozen ways you could read the English version of African Titanics, depending on how — and with what — you approach it: The short novel, ……Read More

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) announced four of its 2015 winners today, including a literature award to The Madmen of Bethlehem (2013) by Palestinian writer ……Read More

And Other Stories’ Arabic book group is moving on to the second novel in its second cycle. This one is Salim Barakat’s كهوف هايدراهوداهوس , or ……Read More

Over the years, I have to come to love books written by Anupama Chopra. If 'Sholay: The Making of a Classic', is something that needs ……Read More

It’s difficult to say how many readers bother with a foreword: They are infamously misspellable  and skippable: But when they’re read, forewords have a power ……Read More

After a five-year hiatus, more than 200 writers and critics participated in the Sixth Cairo Forum for the Arabic Novel earlier this month: By Mona Elnamoury ……Read More