Batool Abu Akleen’s ’48kg’ Makes Warwick Prize Longlist
Coming Oct 2026: An IPAF Winner, a Classic & More
In Cairo, ‘A Renewed Appetite for Egyptian and Arab Literature’
Fiction
New Short Fiction: ‘Denial Likes Small Activities’
This story comes from Hussein al-Abri’s latest collection, Time Slips Away in the Corner (2026).
Poetry
Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The End of Things’
There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be “Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day.”
Texts After the Screaming
Nour Balousha wrote these two poems “after I stopped screaming, not because it ended, but because I grew too exhausted to keep screaming.”
Interviews
On Music, Memory, and Damascus
“Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space.”
On Shaping ‘The Book of Damascus’
The Book of Damascus, ed. Zaher Omareen, is a new anthology in their “Reading the City” series. Here, editor Zaher Omareen talks with Fifi Bat-hef about selecting ten stories to represent a city as complex and storied as Damascus.
Palestinian Sittis and the Inheritance of Memories
In this conversation, Hooda Shawa offers inspiring insight into her experience writing such a personal and powerful novel as well as herself as an author.
In Focus
From the archives
In Conversation: The Possibilities for Doing ‘Right’ in 14th Century Morocco & Spain
The Red Suns, Purple Moons, and Gun-Carrying Mice of Syrian Poet Da’ad Haddad
“In her poetry world, the sun is red. The moon is purple. Snow is ubiquitous. Winter is eternal.”
‘To Keep That Wrongness’: Adania Shibli on Relating to Language in ‘Minor Detail’
