literature

2024 book club
Book Club
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The best books of 2024: Top 10 picks for the year

From Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin to Mosab Abu Toha, The New Arab presents a breakdown of some of our top 10 best books of 2024 featured in the Book Club series

Zainab Mehdi
31 December, 2024
no one knows their blood type
Book Club
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The battle of identity & truth in No One Knows Their Blood Type

The New Arab Staff

Marcia Lynx Qualey

16 October, 2024
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Society
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Molière to Shakespeare: Algerian readership shift

The New Arab Staff

Tenere Majhoul

11 June, 2024
Offbeat
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Miriam Margolyes says Charles Dickens would be 'pro-Palestine'

The New Arab Staff
11 June, 2024
World
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More writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards

The New Arab Staff
20 April, 2024
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MENA
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Turkish writer accused of sexual harassment dies by suicide

The New Arab Staff
12 December, 2020
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MENA
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Arab authors call for boycott of Emirati book prize

The New Arab Staff
22 November, 2020
In-depth Marwa
Analysis
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Between the lines: Egypt's censorship crackdown targets book translations

Horriya Marzouk
26 August, 2020
Society - Ramona Wadi
Interviews
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Palestinian novelist Huzama Habayeb on literature, memory and displacement

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi

05 August, 2020
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Society
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Preserving the memory of the Nakba in Palestinian literature

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi

15 May, 2020
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Society
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Five books on Palestine to read during Covid-19 lockdown

Diana Alghoul

Diana Alghoul

29 April, 2020
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MENA
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Literature festival in UAE criticised by human rights groups

The New Arab
25 February, 2020
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MENA
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Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho 'deleted mention of Kurdistan'

The New Arab
18 July, 2019
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MENA
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Nobel laureate V S Naipaul dies at 85

The New Arab & agencies
12 August, 2018
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Perspectives

Breaking with tradition: Robert Irwin rethinks Ibn Khaldun

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Usman Butt

02 April, 2018
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Perspectives

Longing for the Lost Caliphate

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Usman Butt

05 March, 2018
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Perspectives

The cultural cost of invading Iraq

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Nazli Ihsan-Adil Tarzi

06 February, 2018
Mona_Prince
Narrated

Egyptian academic accused of 'glorifying Satan' after teaching poem

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

24 August, 2017
Darwish Palestine
Narrated

On his deathbed: A letter by Mahmoud Darwish

The New Arab Staff

Mahmoud Darwish

10 August, 2017
Jordan Quawas
Perspectives

Meeting Rula Quawas

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Amal Awad

27 July, 2017
Hamzeh Al-Maaytah ap
Society
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Jordanians crowdfund to save ‘pay-as-you-like’ bookstore

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab & agencies

28 June, 2017