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3 days ago | 
qantara.de | Tugrul Mende |Marcia Lynx Qualey |Andrea Backhaus |Jannis Hagmann
Egyptian author Youssef Rakha · 12.05.2025 Youssef Rakha revisits Egypt's 2011 uprising and its aftermath in "The Dissenters", the author's first novel written in English. The Arab Spring failed, he argues in this interview, because it was a neoliberal movement with no compelling vision for the future.
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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Marcia Lynx Qualey
New anthology "Imprisoning a Revolution" · 14.04.2025 A new anthology gathers the words, drawings and memories of Egyptian prisoners—some well-known, many anonymous—who document life inside the carceral state. https://qantara.de/en/node/44357 Print One effect of mass incarceration is the widespread silencing of the detained. This silence is often followed by a general amnesia, as society forgets those who are imprisoned.
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1 month ago | 
newarab.com | Marcia Lynx Qualey
Much of the optimism in Palestine in a World on Fire, edited by Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé, makes for difficult reading. While published in 2024, this anthology was composed at a different time, based on conversations that historian Ilan Pappé held in 2021 and 2022 with 11 famous thinkers: economists, authors, historians, politicians, and critics.
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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Marcia Lynx Qualey |Volker Kaminski
Jan Dost on writing in Arabic and Kurdish · 01.04.2025 "Safe Corridor" is Jan Dost's first novel translated into English. The prolific Syrian writer explores the hardening impact of war on children and discusses the key differences between writing in Kurdish and Arabic. https://qantara.de/en/node/44337 Print Kamiran, the thirteen-year-old boy who narrates Jan Dost's novel "Safe Corridor"swings between acting like a grown man and a helpless child.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
themarkaz.org | Marcia Lynx Qualey
Did repressive governments and dictators contribute to the downfall of a popular 20th-century fiction genre?
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Marcia Lynx Qualey
Book Club: Omar Khalifah’s 'Sand-Catcher' is a sharp, fast-paced novel about four Palestinian journalists trying to uncover an elderly man’s elusive Nakba story Omar Khalifah’s rapid-fire romantic satire Sand-Catcher is over so quickly that the reader is left clutching at the final sentences, wanting the story to go on for just a few more pages. The novel, Khalifah’s first, appeared in Arabic in 2020 and is out this month in Barbara Romaine’s English translation.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Gerrit Wustmann |Marcia Lynx Qualey
Science Fiction from Turkey · 22.11.2024 Above the clouds, lies not just boundless freedom, but also dystopian visions of the future. With his collection Über den Wolken und andere Geschichten [Above the Clouds and Other Stories], editor Ünver Alibey shows that science fiction is no longer a solely Western genre.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Elizabeth Grenier |Marcia Lynx Qualey |Hannah El-Hitami
Nathan Thrall's book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama" · 19.09.2024 At once empathic and analytic, Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” shines a light on life in Palestine under Israeli occupation. Highly recommended.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Gerrit Wustmann |Marcia Lynx Qualey |Volker Kaminski
Short stories by Moussa Abadi · 03.09.2024 Syrian author Moussa Abadi depicts peaceful coexistence in the Jewish Quarter of 1920s Damascus in ‘The Queen and the Calligrapher’. The characters may be quirky and the stories bizarre, but they show us that the Damascus of yesterday could be a model for our own time.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Birgit Svensson |Marcia Lynx Qualey
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan · 24.06.2024 In Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, regional elections are being repeatedly postponed, institutions weakened and structures are becoming more autocratic https://qantara.de/en/node/44071 Print Super election year 2024: half the world is going to the polls. India, the world's most populous nation, has voted, elections are taking place in Algeria and Tunisia, just as in Britain, France, Austria and the entire European Union.
