Books

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

Family sagas, imagined futures, biographies and works of politics are among the literary highlights read by our staff and contributors in 2019

Laila Lalami: ‘Whoever tells the story controls the world’

Postcards from dystopia: The Jewish-American cartoonist hitting back at Zionism

The Parisian: An epic novel of love and loss in Palestine

Review: A trip into the dark heart of Syria

Apocalypse now: Why Arab authors are really writing about the end of the world

Arabic poetry: 10 writers, classic and modern, you need to read

Visa denied: Sudanese author is blocked by UK authorities

Death of a writer: Murder casts shadow over Baghdad's literary scene

Palestinian-American author changes narrative of her life with debut novel

Cairo: A tale of two book fairs

Calls for protest in Kuwait as banned book list reveals extent of censorship

Salt Houses: Tackling Israel-Palestine with a poet's licence

Hatim Kanaaneh