Bahaa Iy'ali

Christopher Nolan’s new film revives a story long confined to schoolbooks. Its new lease of life on the big screen has not only racked up box-office…

In Beirut, as evening falls, the Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy sits correcting his French editorial before it goes to press, weighing each…

As the popularity of football grew to such an extent that it became the world’s common language, a library of books about the sport began to take…

The French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil writes in a way that allows thought to unfold on the page. She writes to understand, and…

This is a direct translation of the article that originally appeared in Arabic.There is a small moment known to those who choose solitude of their…

The Arab historical novel enters our lives through the threshold closest to the heart: the threshold of story. As the narrative unfolds, our sense of…

In Arab bookshops, the shelves of translated literature follow a familiar order: American literature, then Spanish, French, Italian, German, Korean,…