Books

The great Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) was born on this day in Alexandria: And nobody @ me about his misogyny this year, unless you ……Read More

The newly launched Palestine + 100 works to bring together voices and stories that have historically been at the margins of the SF conversation: By Sinéad Murphy Published ……Read More

Celebrated Iraqi playwright and actor Yusuf al-Ani (1927-2016) is at the center of the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab ……Read More

You know David Larsen from his lions and cats, but he’s not uninterested in insects: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Turkey unspec., c. 1717 (al-Qazwini, Zakariya; ……Read More

This summer, Syracuse University Press released a translation — by Sinan Antoon — of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance: It is a mass-disappearance novel, in the ……Read More

Yesterday, the University of Arkansas announced Jessica Abughattas had won the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection, Strip: Photo from news release. Abughattas ……Read More