Ministry of Information

Book Banning in Kuwait: How, Why, & What Comes Next

September 13, 2018

How does the Ministry of Information in Kuwait oversight committee manage to ban 4390 books in five years?

New and featured poetry in translation.

Short fiction from the Maghreb and Mashreq.

Talks with authors, translators, publishers, & more.

.An exploration of power and language with Yasmeen Hanoosh

A look at Arabic literature and Arabic literature in translation.

Featured poetry, fiction, and essays from our magazine.

Listen to the latest from BULAQ, an Arabic books-centric podcast.

Listicles of bilingual books, medieval poems, short-short stories and more.