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From Iman Humaydan’s ‘Songs for Darkness’ “She closed her olive-green eyes and sang songs she’d learned from the women in her family.”

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OUT NOW: SYRIA, Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam, a 300-page anthology of Syrian literature and art that speaks to this moment.

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Venice Requiem Khalid Lyamlahy Review | BookBlast® BookBlast Diary review of Khalid Lyamlahy's Venice Requiem, translated by Ros Schwartz, based on the true story of Pateh Sabally, a young Gambian refugee who threw himself into the Grand Canal in 2017...

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Forthcoming March 2026: Big Novels and Intimate Short Stories As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If yo…

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When the State Represses Cultural Life  | Essay In the U.S., an Egyptian Exile Contemplates Yet Another Battle Against Authoritarianism

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‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.

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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

The Gestural Feminism of Iranian Women The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.

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A ‘Wondrous’ Cairo International Book Fair Draws Millions - Publishing Perspectives This year 1,457 publishing houses from 83 countries had stands at the fair, the largest and oldest in the Arab world.

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Archiving Gaza in the Present: In Conversation with Dina Matar and Venetia Porter Palestine Square

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In my home state of Minnesota, neighbours are standing st... Residents are pulling together to combat tactics similar to those used by secret police in repressive regimes

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Prison and the Writer: Interview with Palestinian Nasser Abu Srour Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons, speaks to interviewer Rebecca Ruth Gould.

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‘What have I survived’: New Poetry by Mahmoud Alshaer “I survived—came out of yesterday / alive, carried out on the shoulders / of the wind.”

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Des artistes-auteurs de Gaza attendus en France mais bloqués aux frontières Une coalition de structures culturelles, de recherche ou de l'enseignement supérieur sonne l'alarme : des dizaines d'artistes, de chercheurs ou de chercheuses de Gaza, attendus en France dans l...

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Sinan Antoon’s ‘Of Loss and Lavender’ In this conversation over e-mail, Sinan Antoon talks about the novel, the fraught nature of collective memory, the process of self-translation, and the sort of “security checkpoints” a book must pa…

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From the River to the Sea : ce qu'en dit la Commission de contrôle des livres jeunesse Le 7 janvier dernier, la librairie Violette and Co était visée par une perquisition de police, menée par 5 agents et un procureur de la République. Un événeme...

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Nigeria Prize for Literature Seeks to Improve the Country’s ‘Book Chain’ - Publishing Perspectives Since its founding in 2004, the Nigeria Prize for Literature has had a significant impact on the publishing process and raised awareness of Nigerian literature around the world.

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Lamia Ziadé’s ‘Rue de Phénicie’ Lebanese artist and writer Lamia Ziadé’s fifth illustrated book for adults, Rue de Phénicie, (Phoenicia Street), is a work of intellectual rigor and personal honesty. It’s a story that begins with …

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“Il faut s’organiser collectivement pour se défendre concrètement” La branche Métiers du livre de SUD Culture Solidaires a tenu, vendredi 16 janvier 2026, une conférence de presse à l’annexe de la Bourse du travail de Paris. Ses membres, au...

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Raha Nik-Andish | Driving in the Dark This piece was written before Iran imposed an internet blackout on 8 January.Six months ago I thought about buying a car...

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Andrew Richard Albanese Joins Publishing Perspectives as Editor-in-Chief - Publishing Perspectives Long-time publishing reporter Andrew Richard Albanese joins Publishing Perspectives as editor-in-chief.

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Mozambican Classic Ualalapi Launches in Graphic Novel Form at Marracuene's First Bookstore Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and illustrator Adérito Wetela (Barch) celebrated the launch of a graphic novel adaptation of Ualalapi on December 10 at Livroteca in Marracuene, Mozambique. Th...

Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and illustrator Adérito Wetela (Barch) celebrated the launch of a graphic novel adaptation of Ualalapi on December 10 at Livroteca in Marracuene, Mozambique: brittlepaper.com/2025/12/moza...

Opinion | Palestinian Artists on Two Years of War in Gaza (Gift Article) Times Opinion asked eight working Palestinian artists about the role of art in the war in Gaza.

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How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence

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Média-Participations confie la diffusion de son catalogue francophone africain à Gara - Livres Hebdo Le groupe entend muscler sa présence en Afrique en s'alliant à la plateforme de distribution numérique Gara.

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It is perilous to write about beauty, because it transports you to a boundlessness, and, looking over that borderline, your assumption that there must be something beyond it is no longer a mere hypothesis: magazine.tank.tv/issue-95/fea...

Shrinking Language, Bursting Memory “Under siege, time is stolen piece by piece, and language shrinks to match the narrow space it is allowed. People abandon long sentences because every additional word must justify the power i…

“words arrive too early, too sharply, and with no softness to cushion them. A toddler hears the buzzing of the drone and says “زنانة,” a word that should not belong to childhood, yet becomes one of its defining sounds”: arablit.org/2025/12/11/s...

Rebuilding Gaza’s library: Omar’s mission to save books amid displacement | Jordan Times AMMAN – When the Israeli bombs began to destroy Gaza, Omar made a decision that would define the next two years of his life: he would not leave his books behind. Through...

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