Books

Lucia Admiraal explores the timeless appeal of Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club: By Lucia Admiraal Walking around on the last day of a crowded ……Read More

Novelist Mahmoud Saeed and poet Faiza Sultan remember Mosul’s libraries in the 1950s and 1990s: Mahmoud Saeed Novelist Mahmoud Saeed was born in Mosul in ……Read More

This summer, Fadi Zaghmout’s debut novel, The Bride of Amman, will be released in English, trans. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp: When blogger Nadia Muhanna wrote about the book back in ……Read More

When Ali Bader’s The Ungodly Woman is published by Dar Noon, it will already have been an incipient film project, a part of the Iraqi arts ……Read More

Now that's experimental indeed, and a brave one at that. Three months before the release of one of his most passionate films till date, Hamaari ……Read More

Hisham al-Khashin’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction-longlisted Graphite shows women struggling against social conventions in Egypt. But do they get anywhere?  By Mohga Hassib Graphite is the substance in ……Read More