Books

For Refugee Week in the UK, organizers are asking people to do 20 Simple Acts to celebrate 20 years of Refugee Week. Number 9 is ……Read More

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra said of Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri that “He is more like the voice of the nation’s conscience,” while Salma Khadra Jayyusi called him ……Read More

Last week, the internet was ablaze with stories of grifters. Anna Delvey — now branded the SoHo grifter — charmed New York’s elite with her ……Read More

Iraqi author Sinan Antoon was in France last week to present Philippe Vigreux’s French translation of his book Ave Maria, published in English in 2017 ……Read More

Jörg Matthias Determann’s newly released Space Science and the Arab World examines the links between science, history, politics, and speculative fiction: By Emad El-Din Aysha Space Science ……Read More

On Monday, Lebanese government censors stopped a theatrical reading that was part of Beirut Pride events. Pride coordinator Hadi Damien was held in police custody ……Read More