Books

Salt Journals: Tunisian women describe their country’s legacy of political imprisonment

A collection of accounts published by Syracuse University Press describes gendered repression that has disturbing parallels to the country today

Dar al-Fata al-Arabi: A look at the first Arab publishing house dedicated to children

Daybreak in Gaza: New anthology aims to preserve a culture being destroyed

Against Erasure: What a new photo book tells about Palestine before the Nakba

Israel's war on Gaza

Salman Rushdie is echoing Israeli talking points to justify the horrors in Gaza

Gabriel Polley

Salman Rushdie says free Palestinian state would be 'Taliban-like'

Fall of Civilizations: The histories of greatness and ruin that mirror modern decay

Israel's war on Gaza

'Deluge' sweeps away western myths about Gaza, Hamas and Israel in essential collection

Richard Sanders

Jalal Al-e Ahmad: The last Muslim intellectual

Hamid Dabashi

Black Shield Maiden: Willow Smith's new book lambasted over representation of Muslims

Orientalism, exoticism, deception: The story of the Arabian Nights

Turkish book publishers pushed to the brink by lira crisis

Five of the best Arab comic and graphic novel releases of 2021

Anybody who has visited Palestine could not fail to support Sally Rooney

Alexandra Pringle

2021's best books: MEE staff and writers' favourite reads of the year

The booksellers of Cairo: An urban trail of eight of the city's antiquarian bookstores

How Diwan bookstores created an inclusive and enduring model of bookselling in Egypt

As Abdulrazak Gurnah's publisher, I thought Nobel winner's moment might have gone

Alexandra Pringle

Duse Mohamed Ali: Fleet Street's first Black Muslim editor, with an international vision

Dune: How interstellar epic avoids Middle East stereotypes