Books

Zainab Fasiki recently launched her new graphic novel, Hshouma, Corps et Sexualité au Maroc: By Olivia Snaije From the early 20th century through the 1970s, when the ……Read More

On exposing words and reading the life and times of (the great) Ahmed Faris al-Shidyaq: By Tugrul Mende Yāqūt, dahnağ, and zibriğ are words describing ……Read More

Translator, author, and editor Yasmine Zohdi writes in Mada Masr on art, maneuvering, the freighted idea of “relevance”, and persistent precarity: “What we talk about ……Read More

A poet-doctor born in Algiers, Samira Negrouche works not only in words, but also in collaborations with visual artists and musicians. Her first book in ……Read More

Jan Dost, author of the acclaimed novel A Green Bus Leaving Aleppo, has two works translated to English on the Short Story Project website: Dost is a Syrian ……Read More

Edwar al-Kharrat (1926-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, writer, and critic, and great lover of books:  By Chihab El Khachab My childhood in Cairo was spent ……Read More