Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More

7/24/2012

Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does …

Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation

9/13/2011

I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid …

6/9/2011

Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …

5/31/2011

I’ve come across a very lively publisher of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish translations to English, histories of the region, biographies, …

5/10/2011

The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim. It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians. …

4/25/2011

A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq …

3/29/2011

Fadhil al-Azzawi’s 1992 The Last of the Angels while not a particularly long book (275 pages in the Free Press …