Awarded the Prix Médicis for foreign literature in France in 2023, Han Kang’s latest novel, We Do Not Part, is more than a reflection on personal…
Wounds can sometimes appear to be healed, only to reopen later. Kamel Daoud, an Algerian author residing in France, manages to give this kind of…
Salman Rushdie is still best remembered for his book The Satanic Verses, which was published in 1988. While it earned him global notoriety and made…
French-Iraqi author Feurat Alani’s novel I Remember Fallujah recently received the prestigious Arab Literature Prize from the Arab World Institute in…
Kateb Yacine is best known in Arab literary history for his masterpiece Nedjma.The novel was originally published in French in 1956. Since then,…
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers. And how one remembers it in order to recount it."Those words, by late author Gabriel Garcia…
The very first Algerian novel written in Arabic was The Wind of the South, by Abdelhamid Benhedouga. It was published in 1970.Algeria is unlike other…
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The Iranian project in the Middle East
