Books

A second of the tales from Pearls on a Branch has appeared online — this time, on LitHub: This gorgeous collection, brought together by Najlaa Khoury and translated ……Read More

When New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham passed away in June 2016, his death left a hole in the industry. Fans of his work ……Read More

In Zeina Halabi’s The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual, a look at the position of the public thinker from the nahda to now, with an emphasis on ……Read More

The quiet, firm Lebanese feminist author and activist Emily Nasrallah (1931-2018) — celebrated for her debut novel Birds of September — has died. A funeral is set ……Read More

The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (d. 2008) was born in al-Birwa on this day in 1941. To commemorate his entrance into our world on March ……Read More

In a recent commentary for Al Araby, الترجمة باعتبارها استشراقاً, Jordanian poet and novelist Amjad Nasser writes about translation: The piece begins with an anecdote, a time ……Read More