Books

On the U.S.’s Independence Day, a re-run from a previous 4th of July:   Just as strange portraits of Arabs appear in North American literature, so Americans, ……Read More

Episode 17 of the Bulaq podcast — co-hosted by the Arabist’s Ursula Lindsey and ArabLit founder M. Lynx Qualey, and produced by the Arabist’s Issandr ……Read More

In an essay that first appeared on Musologie, and appears here with permission, July Blalack writes about impossible love: By July Blalack Writing from a country straddling ……Read More

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a third version of the country’s “Muslim ban” — so-called because the Trump-regime executive order targets ……Read More

Take a glance at your coffee table (or nightstand or shelf), and chances are most of the larger books you own are about fashion, art ……Read More

Although coffee was around much earlier, the first writing we have about it is from the fifteenth century: By the sixteenth, when it was spreading ……Read More