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A Tunisian's journey in Beirut gifts the Arab literary world an extraordinary neoclassical novel

In his recent novel "Waiting for the Predicate of Inna," Tunisian scholar Al Taher Labib employs an eloquent and neoclassical style of written Arabic that celebrates the art of storytelling

Mohamed abi Samra 18 August 2023

Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka at the Turin International Book Fair.

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Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka: Europe has forgotten history lessons

The 88-year-old writer explores an imaginary Nigeria rife with corruption and conspiracy in his latest novel, but glimmers of hope still shine.

Youssouf Waqqas 02 July 2023

A review of a book about prejudice and the creation of the necessary conditions that lead to scapegoating through the eyes of authors.

Nicola Ferrarese

The scapegoat’s place in literature

A review of a book about prejudice and the creation of the necessary conditions that lead to scapegoating through the eyes of authors

Youssouf Waqqas 19 June 2023

Aerial view of the London Book Fair at Hammersmith's Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 18th April 2023, in London, England.

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Saudi Arabia steps up participation at London Book Fair

For the second year in a row, Arab participation in the London Book Fair has been extremely successful, highlighting the will to bridge the gap between Arab and foreign book publishers

Haitham Hussein 25 April 2023

Nose in a Book

It is said that London is too large for anyone to live in and that it really amounts to a collection of villages. One such village is Stamford Hill in the north of the city, a district almost…

Bryn Haworth 30 August 2022

Human Journey Characterized by Fantasy

Eric Blair, who is known by his pen name George Orwell, was eerily accurate in the predictions he made in his novel, dubbed “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which was published in 1949. He gave free rein to…

Gamal Abd El-Maboud 01 April 2022

Poster of Iman Mersal’s book, “In the Trail of Enayat Al Zayat”.

On the Trail of Enayat Al Zayat

In her latest book, “On the Trail of Enayat Al Zayat,” writer Iman Mersal shares the details of a journey seldom told. The book follows the trail of a woman writer in the 1960s and eloquently shares…

Amira El-noshokaty 31 May 2021

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The conflict over Karabakh had been the longest-running in the post-Soviet space. Al Majalla explains the origins of the conflict and how it has evolved over the decades.

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Nagorno-Karabakh's perpetual conflict shows Soviet Union still crumbling

25 September 2023

Al Majalla explains the origins and evolution of the longest-running conflict in the post-Soviet space

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France’s Suez Moment has been a drawn-out one. Its influence has waxed and waned since the 1960s, but it has been on an overall downward trajectory throughout. Al Majalla explains.

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France’s African empire may have had its ‘Suez Moment’

24 September 2023

France's 'Suez Moment' has been a drawn-out one. Its influence has waxed and waned since the 1960s, but it has been on an overall downward trajectory throughout. Al Majalla explains.

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Mazloum Abdi (Kobani), commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks with AFP during an interview in the countryside outside the northwestern Syrian city of Hasakah.

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Mazloum Abdi: Syria, Iran, and Turkey 'incited' Arab tribes to attack the SDF

24 September 2023

The SDF commander rejects demands to disband his forces and tells Al Majalla in an exclusive interview that US-Russian tension east of the Euphrates is 'under control'

Ibrahim Hamidi

A woman spreads bulgur to dry in the sun after grinding it in the Lebanese southern town of Marjayoun, on July 15, 2020.

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Harvesting the homeland: How the Syrian bulgur season used to bring joy to villagers

24 September 2023

Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa recalls the joy that bulgur season used to bring to his village in Syria. Now the simple pleasure is disappearing from households as a harrowing consequence of war.

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A Tunisian's journey in Beirut gifts the Arab literary world an extraordinary neoclassical novel

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka: Europe has forgotten history lessons

The scapegoat’s place in literature

Saudi Arabia steps up participation at London Book Fair

Nose in a Book

Human Journey Characterized by Fantasy

On the Trail of Enayat Al Zayat

The seven messages of Mohammed bin Salman

Nagorno-Karabakh's perpetual conflict shows Soviet Union still crumbling

France’s African empire may have had its ‘Suez Moment’

Mazloum Abdi: Syria, Iran, and Turkey 'incited' Arab tribes to attack the SDF

Harvesting the homeland: How the Syrian bulgur season used to bring joy to villagers

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