The Moroccan scholar has just won another award for his latest book. He spoke to Al Majalla about plots, characters, and the rhetoric of narrative.

It is difficult to accept the idea of Jeff Koons and Salvador Dalí being gathered under one roof, yet exhibition organisers appear to hold a different view

Abbas Khider's novel The Memory Forger exposes the inherited structures of repression left behind by dictatorial regimes, and the hollow Western claims about human fraternity and equality.

Jordanian writer tells Al Majalla how he condenses language but not semantics, and where he takes his inspiration from.

Through extravagant processions led by palace women, the Mamluk state projected a message of power and prestige at home and abroad, turning the Hajj obligation into a soft-power tool

In an interview with Al Majalla, the renowned Bosnian playwright discusses the relationship between art and memory and the role of the intellectual in the public sphere

Nearly eight decades after her death, the French philosopher's reflections on suffering, attention, work, and moral seriousness continue to resonate

Football star Lamine Yamal's hoisting of Palestine's flag, and the Eurovision audience's booing of Israel's contestant, show how Israel has lost its PR edge

In a two-part series, Canadian novelist Dominique Fortier recounts the poet's creative drivers through the lens of four women who handled her literary reposit after her death

Nestled on the southern Mediterranean coast, Egypt's quaint coastal metropolis marked its inception as an ancient city that wore many hats across civilisations