Books

Laila Soliman’s “Whims of Freedom” looks at what gets lost in historical re-tellings:  By Yasmin Elbeih Earlier this month, Egyptian playwright Laila Soliman gave a talk ……Read More

An Algerian Salafi imam — called “un obscure salafiste” by the paper Le Matin — has called for the death of award-winning Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud: It was yesterday, Dec. 16, that Salafi leader Abdelfatah ……Read More

There were at least nine contemporary Arabic poetry collections published in translation this year, a number of them stunning, ground-breaking, beautifully produced: Certainly there were ……Read More

This month over at Apogee, Jordanian author Hisham Bustani, Palestinian-American author Naomi Shihab Nye, and Palestinian-Canadian author-translator Thoraya El-Rayyes had a three-way conversation about commercialization, co-optation, experimentation, ……Read More

Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, Counter-Investigation was the subject of a heated auction at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Why did Other Press stick it out to ……Read More

Reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists after the collapse of the Third ……Read More