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

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

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

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

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