Ursula Lindsey

Police blocking protesters after the arrests of the leaders of the Jordanian Teachers’ Syndicate, Amman, July 29, 2020

Jordan’s Endless Transition

The government’s efforts to preempt dissent and mass mobilization may keep Jordan quiet, but they are unlikely to solve its current crisis.

October 22, 2020 issue

Leila Slimani; illustration by Johnalynn Holland

Family Values

The women in Leila Slimani’s novels are unhappy.

Adèle

by Leila Slimani, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

The Perfect Nanny

by Leila Slimani, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Sex and Lies

by Leila Slimani, translated from the French by Sophie Lewis

Le Pays des Autres: Première Partie: La guerre, la guerre, la guerre

by Leila Slimani

July 23, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

March 29, 2020

‘This Land Is Mine’

Palestine as Metaphor

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

In the Presence of Absence

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic and with an introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi and with a foreword by Sinan Antoon

Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation

by Khaled Mattawa

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February 27, 2020 issue

A Lebanese anti-government protester, draped in a national flag, sitting atop The Egg building overlooking the Mohammed al-Amin mosque and the Martyrs’ Square, Beirut, Lebanon, November 14, 2019

Lebanon Asks: ‘Which Is Stronger, Sect or Hunger?’

“If you are pessimistic you can say that sectarianism will be back with a vengeance,” said Karim Emile Bitar, a political science professor. And if you’re optimistic? “We are witnessing the emergence of a post-sectarian Lebanon.”

December 2, 2019