Books

The first ever Penguin Classic, E. V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey, was published in 1946. Since then, the imprint has brought out more than ……Read More

On Monday, the Palestine Book Awards announced their 2019 shortlist: The awards, now in their eighth year, received 43 submissions and chose a shortlist of ……Read More

Last month, Jordanian poet, journalist, and novelist Amjad Nasser published a small collection of poems online about coming to terms with the end of his life ……Read More

Over at Poetry International, Nisrine Mbarki has written up a short introduction to Mona Kareem’s poetry, “captivating and visual miniatures of day-to-day situations,” and Robin ……Read More

Al-Sayyid Negm, author of the 2018 environmental novel The Noise of Frogs, talks with Layla Azmi Goushey about writing what he sees as “resistance literature” and ……Read More

For Pride month, five queer-focused fictions — by queer authors and/or about queer characters — translated from Arabic that you can read online: 1) An ……Read More