Books

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

Written over a period of more than 10 years, Porochista Khakpour’s collection of essays, Brown Album, is a reckoning with what it means to be an Iranian in America today

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'

My End is My Beginning: A wild sci-fi ride through a world gone mad

How Turkish TV, Bollywood and K-pop spell the end for the American century

'Between Beirut and the Moon': The story of an unfulfilled odyssey

'Shy Radicals': The book that demands an inclusive world for introverts

Plague and poetry: How Middle East authors have written about disease

Egyptian cult classics: 11 books that are worth reading

The Olive Trees' Jazz: Algiers poet speaks in music of the senses

Books and bombs: How I healed myself through fiction

Jared Kushner, here are 25 more books you should read about Palestine, Israel relations

The best Middle East books of the year - picked by Middle East Eye writers

‘I sort of broke English’: Meet the Lebanese poet crossing boundaries

When We Were Arabs: 'I am not an Oriental'

Palestine in 2048: Staring into a black mirror

The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

Arab poet Mourid Barghouti: Watching the leaves fall

The comic artist who fled Syria and found himself