Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …
Category Archives: Fiction
PDF Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, …
Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation
I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid …
Emerging Arab Voices: A Bilingual Reader
I’ve been immersing myself in translated Arabic writing these past months, from novels, to movies, to short story and poetry …
All This Belongs to Me: A Novel of Mongolian Sisters; Or Is It?
I decided to take a break from the run of Arabic fiction I’ve been reading to catch up with a …
Saqi Books: History, Fiction and Food from the Middle World
I’ve come across a very lively publisher of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish translations to English, histories of the region, biographies, …
The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt & England
Adhaf Soueif, of Egptian and British heritage and upbringing has set herself a formidable task in The Map of Love: …