“We passed a vast area near my house in Mazzeh, its surface covered with unfinished cement buildings. The driver told me it was a residential and commercial development owned by Asma al-Assad. The next day, one torture survivor told me the purpose of the project was to hide corpses[.]”
On a review that nearly didn’t happen.
Publisher and managing director of Saqi Books, Lynn Gaspard, on what it means to publish as your world faces destruction.
This essay, by the extraordinary Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam.
“Gaza does not resemble herself in Ramadan.”
Adabiyat is a virtual book club for readers of Arabic literature to come together monthly and debate, interpret, and appreciate written works of the Arab world and its diaspora. Houcine Chraïbi is a member of this club and writes of how his enlightening experiences during meetings and the welcoming energy of the Adabiyat community has rekindled his relationship with reading and enriched his life.
A letter from ArabLit editor Ibtihal Rida Mahmood to May Ziadeh (1886-1941).
In his 2015 autobiography, A Time of Wind, Anxiety, and Freedom (أزمنة الريح والقلق والحرية ), Sudanese scholar Dr. Hayder Ibrahim Ali offers a rare and insightful account of Sudan’s intellectual and political life.
This excerpt comes from the first chapter of the extraordinary literary memoir The Fire: The Tale of a Child Who Has Not Yet Burned, by Mohammad Abdo Najari, published in Damascus by Dar al-Hassad in 1996.
