A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributio...

'A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.'Geograp...

Wild and strange stories have been told about the female body since antiquity. Ranging from the e...

Originally published in Jerusalem, 'Wild Thorns', an Arab novel, offers a glimpse of social and p...

In the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean c...

Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeri...

The Exile's Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments,...

During the Gulf War in 1991, through long nights of relentless bombing and the disappearance of a...

Over the last ten years, journalist and al-Qa'ida expert Abdel Bari Atwan has cultivated uniquely...

The 1400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi`is has rarely been as toxic as it is today, feedi...

European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thir...

Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems)...