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

Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: Stories and recipes for the hungry young reader

Between Two Islands: How British Bahrainis found a home in poetry

Egypt bans ‘extremist’ and Muslim Brotherhood literature in mosque libraries

Fire and the Phoenix asks us to rethink the roles of religion, clan and power

Khalid Hajji

From Babel to Berlin: How Arabic literature can unite the world

Learn to read and write in Nubian

James Baker: The man who said No to Israel

Jonathan Steele

Poets, fighters and dreamers: Kurdish women tell their own stories

How Beirut's bookshops kept love of literature alive during war, boom and bust

'Hot Maroc': Yassin Adnan's satirical debut novel plots the death of Moroccan politics

Review: Reclaiming Syrian prison literature

17 new books by Palestinian writers that are worth reading