Books

Passage to the Plaza: Sahar Khalifeh gives voice to a generation of Palestinian women

Novelist Sahar Khalifeh records the experience of Palestinians under occupation, focusing on the presence of women in the narrative of the national struggle

Collapsing the shelves: The challenges of publishing Arab American children's books

Revolution, migration and free will: Khaled Mattawa's poems explore the notion of liberty

12 books you need to read about the Arab Spring

Barack Obama's memoir is a desperate attempt to seal a legacy. It fails

Azad Essa

Ghost in the machine: Netflix's Paranormal is strictly by the numbers

'Iranian women are pursuing their dreams': New book challenges western stereotypes

Five books on East Africa's centuries-old connection with the Middle East

Fear and loathing in Gaza: Tales of a life under siege

Voices of a lost homeland: The poetry of Western Sahara

'Is there a Lebanon to save?' Writers reflect on Beirut blast

Against the Loveless World: A Palestinian tale of exile and resistance

Art and photography

Iranian gangsters: Tattoos, drug deals and a hidden underworld revealed

Caught between fact and fiction: How Palestinian authors write about their cities

Being brown in America: Stories of exile, identity and belonging

Five books to read on the history of Black Muslims

French novelist Faiza Guene on writing, anger and dreams of '98

Palestinian fashion from ancient Canaan to a thobe in Congress

Palestinian writing: Maps redrawn, futures reimagined

Saints, scholars and queens: The women who helped forge Islam

The Frightened Ones: 'I sometimes miss fear because it became a way of living'