Books

The new issue of Newfound has fiction by acclaimed Iraqi author Mortada Gzar, translated by Katharine Halls: The story, which is posted in both the ……Read More

Salim Barakat’s The Two Autobiographies are being re-released. Mahmoud Hosny explores their importance: By Mahmoud Hosny   Salim Barakat Twenty years after publishing The Two Autobiographies السيرتان ……Read More

This review was meant to be published two years ago, but the magazine that requested it went dark. So here, to accompany our piece on ……Read More

There is a great appetite for Sufi-themed novels in Arabic. Where will it lead? By Ali Shakir There’s probably not a single book club in ……Read More

In the most recent issue of Asymptote — where you can also find two poems by Ḥusayn Mardān, trans. Suneela Mubayi and an interview with Marilyn ……Read More

Even before he won the first-ever Al Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story for Jokes for the Gunmen, Mazen Maarouf had published his second collection, ……Read More