Books

Arabic has gone from de facto English-language invisibility to the “fourth-most-translated” literary language in the US. Part of this surge in sightliness comes from the funding support behind Arabic ……Read More

Cairo-based journalist and researcher Alexia Underwood sat down with controversial Egyptian author Mona Prince to discuss her writing, her activism, and the future: By Alexia Underwood Mona ……Read More

The poet and novelist Omar Hazek, sentenced to two years at Borg El-Arab prison ostensibly for violating Egypt’s controversial anti-protest law, has written his seventh letter ……Read More

This book is more of a personal account of an individual, which means there, is bound to be difference in taste and choices. With '40 ……Read More

Sean W. Anthony, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, brings a historian’s eye to his work editing and translating Maʿmar ibn Rāshid’s ……Read More

The poetry team at the Southbank Centre worked for a year to come up with this international list of the best 50 love poems of ……Read More