Books

We all know it’s not okay to do math or study Arabic on a plane. And now, apparently, it’s not okay to read collections of Syrian literature and ……Read More

To help me explore Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land In Between (2016), I ordered a sneeze-inducing, water-stained copy of Knud Holmboe’s Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey ……Read More

Yesterday, Jack Shenker issued a statement about his book — The Egyptians: A Radical Story — which had been impounded by the censors’ office and held in limbo ……Read More

From a review of Muhammad Zafzaf’s The Elusive Fox, trans. Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen, that can be read in full at Qantara, “One rule for them.” It opens: ……Read More

On July 18, Dareen Tatour’s hearing — to have her house arrest shifted from being alone outside Tel Aviv to her own village outside Nazareth ……Read More

This interview, the second in a two-part series, also appears at the Library of Arabic Literature website: Luke Yarbrough’s interests, he says, lie at the ……Read More