Hussein Barghouthi

Lit Lists Alis al-Bustan, Asad’s Secret, Áthar Barghouthi, Charles Akl, Hussein Barghouthi, Marilyn Booth, Najlaa Attaallah, Red Like Orange, Sa’iba, Sarah Enany, Sawad Hussain, The Third Bank of the Jordan River

Forthcoming June 2026: YA, Classics, and More

June 1, 2026

This month, find classic works by Alis al-Bustani and Hussein Barghouti, a YA novel from Palestine, a short-story anthology from Damascus, and a new award-winner from Egypt.

Fiction, Nonfiction Fady Joudah, Hussein Barghouthi, The Blue Light

An Excerpt from Hussein Barghouthi’s ‘The Blue Light’: Introduction to the Psychology of Fog

January 30, 2023

“It is said that blue is an antidote to sexual excitation—and I was a raging bull then. It is also said that blue calms the nerves—and I was on the edge of madness, bad temper was my inheritance, my father was known for it.”

News Dunya Mikhail, Fady Joudah, forthcoming 2022, forthcoming books, Hussein Barghouthi, Inaam Kachachi, Inam Jaber, Jalal Bargas, Paul Starkey