Books

  Photo: Courtesy of Algonquin Young Readers. If you’re holiday shopping for the YA lover in your life, it’s time to look beyond the adventures ……Read More

Youssef Rakha (@Sultans_Seal) is that odd bilingual writer — Arabic and English, in his case — who manages to see the underside of two literary languages, pick loose ……Read More

The full review appears at In These Times: What might Iraq look like a century from now? That question is the organizing premise of Iraq + ……Read More

Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji is currently free from prison, finally released on December 22, four days after his sentence was suspended ahead of his next ……Read More

Thalia Suzuma is seeking to fill a gap in the books ecosystem: professional editing and book assessment for writers in the Middle East and North ……Read More

Yesterday, Mekkawi Said’s To Be Loved by Jihan made the 2016-17 Sheikh Zayed Book Award longlist. Today, Ahmed Salah Eldein profiles the author and discusses his novel: ……Read More