Books

The anonymous Baghdad satirist who gained a cult following in Iraq

Shalash the Iraqi's writings from 2005 and 2006 have been collected and translated into English for a new audience

How to be a bad Muslim: Politics, poetry and finding love beyond the labels

Dismay as London's famed Al Saqi bookshop closes its doors

YA Arab American novels: Bringing Palestine into our fictional world

Nada Elia

Assassins, anarchists and anti-British activism: Dispatches from the Egyptian underground

Kyle J Anderson

Qatar World Cup 2022

Qatar World Cup: Football, neoliberalism and revolution in the Middle East

Abdullah Al-Arian

Nobel literature prize: Annie Ernaux and the art of 'collective autobiography'

Alexandra Pringle

Jeremy Bowen: A witness to the unmaking of the Middle East

Chris Doyle

Fascist Italy and the forgotten Libyan genocide

Younes Abouyoub

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow: Syrian author Zoulfa Katouh on survivor’s guilt and hope

Digital authoritarianism: The rise of electronic armies in the Middle East

Megan O'Toole

How a century of exile forged Palestinian national consciousness

Nadim Bawalsa

Five of the Arab world's most impressive libraries