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Ursula Lindsey writes about culture, education, and politics in the Arab world and cohosts BULAQ, a podcast on Arabic literature. She has lived in Egypt and Morocco and is now based in Amman, Jordan. (October 2020)
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
‘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
February 27, 2020 issue
Egypt: Between Order and Chaos
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
by Peter Hessler
October 10, 2019 issue
Coup de Théâtre
Sentence to Hope: A Sa‘dallah Wannous Reader
translated from the Arabic and with an introduction by Robert Myers and Nada Saab
June 27, 2019 issue
Restoring Morocco’s Past
The Hospital: A Tale in Black and White
by Ahmed Bouanani, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, with an introduction by Anna Della Subin
The Shutters
by Ahmed Bouanani, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
November 22, 2018 issue
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