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1 week ago | 
newarab.com | Chaima Gharsallaoui |Noshin Bokth |Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
Just after 10 p.m. on December 7, 2024, hundreds of people gathered in the parking lot of Ridgeway Plaza, a strip mall on the outskirts of Mississauga, Ontario. Pick-up trucks blared Arabic music, and shopkeepers passed out knafeh and sahlab. Police directed traffic as car horns roared. The new Syrian flag, with three red stars, rather than two green ones, was rippling through the cold winter air.
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1 week ago | 
newarab.com | Noshin Bokth
Sabrin Hasbun, born to an Italian mother and a Palestinian father, hails from two distinct worlds, yet this crossing and fusion have resulted in a fiercely honourable legacy. Sabrin Hasbun's new memoir, Crossing, is not just a chronicle of her parents and her own lives, but a profoundly intimate account that is a gift to the world. It will inspire and leave an indelible mark on all who read it.
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2 weeks ago | 
newarab.com | Chaima Gharsallaoui |Noshin Bokth
In Gaza, intense and repeated panic attacks, combined with constant high levels of stress, anxiety, and the trauma of losing loved ones — including primary caregivers — are severely damaging children’s psychological and physical health, leading to serious physiological changes and the spread of unexplained diseases.
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3 weeks ago | 
newarab.com | Noshin Bokth
Egyptian author Mohamed Kheir's latest novel, Sleep Phase, is an extraordinarily crafted and rewarding Kafkaesque tale. Mohamed’s background as a poet and lyricist resounds throughout the eccentric world and mind of Warif, a translator by trade, recently released from a seven-year prison sentence.
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1 month ago | 
newarab.com | Noshin Bokth
Award-winning author and poet Hala Alyan’s debut memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, is a poignant exploration of her tumultuous path to parenthood, identity, and displacement. In this memoir, Hala documents her experience with infertility and finding motherhood through surrogacy, a journey intricately linked to her fractured background as a displaced Palestinian. Her poetic background resonates throughout the memoir, with fluid prose that conveys her desperate longing to become a mother.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
newarab.com | Noshin Bokth
Long-admired Egyptian poet Fatma Qandil makes her English debut with her first novel, Empty Cages: A Novel. Winner of the 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, the novel is semi-autobiographical and profoundly intimate. The book follows the ostensibly ordinary life of an Egyptian middle-class family in the sixties, unearthing their explosive secrets, which are concealed behind closed doors.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Noshin Bokth
Book Club: 'In The Orchards of Basra', Hisham, a bookseller, is drawn into the life of Yazid, an intellectual from ancient Basra, by a series of strange dreams Acclaimed Egyptian author Mansoura Ez-Eldin's novel The Orchards of Basra is a captivating novel that centres around Hisham Al Khattab, an antique bookseller in Cairo. Though his occupation appears lackluster, he is a complex character whose tenuous thread with reality is disturbed by a strange dream.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
newarab.com | Noshin Bokth
Acclaimed Egyptian author Mansoura Ez-Eldin's novel The Orchards of Basra is a captivating novel that centres around Hisham Al Khattab, an antique bookseller in Cairo. Though his occupation appears lackluster, he is a complex character whose tenuous thread with reality is disturbed by a strange dream. His journey to understand this vision takes him to Basra at the end of the Umayyad period. There, he learns of a man named Yazid ibn Abih, whom he believes to be his past self.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Noshin Bokth
The Earthquake: Tahir Wattar's seismic Algerian epic lives on Book Club: Reissued by Saqi Books, Tahir Wattar's classic novel The Earthquake is a dreamlike trip through a turbulent 1970s Algeria in chaos. Saqi Books has recently published a reissue of Tahir Wattar’s modern Algerian classic novel, , on its 50th anniversary. Wattar is a renowned Algerian author whose works have been salient in understanding the complexities of post-colonial Algeria.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Noshin Bokth
Saqi Books has recently published a reissue of Tahir Wattar's modern Algerian classic novel, , on its 50th anniversary. Wattar is a renowned Algerian author whose works have been salient in understanding the complexities of post-colonial Algeria. The events of the book take place in the nascent stages of the country's independence. However, Tahir Wattar's world is far from idyllic. He depicts a grotesque society in profound turmoil after colonial entities have ravaged their lives.
