Books

Celebrated Syrian poet Rasha Omran talks with acclaimed Canadian author-translator Kim Echlin:  By Rasha Omran, Abdelrehim Youssef, and Kim Echlin Rasha Omran was born in 1964 in Malaja, a ……Read More

The scholar of Egyptian and comparative theatre Hazem Azmy is being celebrated this evening by friends and colleagues — both over Skype and in person ……Read More

Bidoun Mix #4 is an interview with — and mixtape from — author-editor Ma’n Abu Taleb: In it, Abu Taleb, the author of All the Battles (translated ……Read More

Earlier this month, activists, scholars, and authors began circulating the news that the Israeli publisher Resling had published an “Arab Spring” anthology of stories by Arab ……Read More

“They don’t even provide a reason, just a highlighting of the offending pages, as though the problem with them were self-evident.” The state of book-banning in ……Read More