For Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), we take you on a tour of work by four Libyan women writers. For more on the Libyan literary scene, visit ArabLit’s June 2026 newsletter for publishing professionals. Four Libyan Women Writers You Should Read By Masoud Masoud As leading Libyan writer Najwa Bin Shatwan said in a 2020 interview with Orna Herr…

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‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single...

An Egyptian mangoes, whose taste lingers on the tongue long after the last bite.

Three poems exploring epiphany, love and numbness — from Ubongabasi Iyanam

واجه الكتاب الليبيون تجربة السجون بطرق مختلفة بين كتابة يوميات السجن العادية أو الكتابة الرمزية للتجربة، أو حتى الهروب من الكتابة عنها.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

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The long read: When Nato helped overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. A decade later, this former CIA asset runs the country – and Libya has become yet another lesson in the ...

A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politics

Libyan officials say they're investigating the death of Saif al Islam Gaddafi, the son of the country's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and said they were searching for suspects.

This is how democracy dies: not with a bang but a simper

Here are 54 books by women from each of Africa’s 54 countries.

Don’t miss these translations by women authors writing in Arabic, Kannada, Latvian, and more

World Kid Lit Month is a month to celebrate world literature for kids and teens, especially fiction and nonfiction translated to English from other languages.

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

بالنسبة لإمارات الساحل العربي، كان الربيع العربي تهديدًا وجوديًا، ومن هناك كان الاستثمار في نموذجين؛ حكم إسلامي لا يعرف الديمقراطية، أو تفتيت الدول بإبادة ذاكرتها الجماعية.

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

Writing from her tent in Gaza, chef Mona Zahed shares twenty of her ancestral recipes, lovingly nurtured and recalled. Each dish is illustrated by a different artist, creating a visual feast as delici...

Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

The 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the sixteenth edition of the prestigious prize, is open from 30 January to 30 June.

يشاع في ليبيا استخفاف أهلها بإرثهم الثقافي. يدحض هذا المقال هذه الرواية من كتُب المستكشفين والرحالة في ليبيا، الذين احتقروا أهالي البلد.

Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...

The Moroccan writer's works are a bracing corrective to the myth of his city as a glamorous, bohemian playground.

Laila Soueif continues protest against detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Cairo The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been admitted to hospital after spending more than 240 days on hunger strike. Laila Soueif’s family said she had been admitted to St Thomas’ hospital in London on Thursday night with dangerously low blood sugar levels, but continues to refuse medical intervention that would provide her with calories. Continue reading...

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Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest.

The president of South Africa responded calmly to Trump’s egregious claim of genocide against white Afrikaners

His presence brought hope, inclusion and pride to Liverpool — but no individual can live up to the demands of a divided nation

Finally passed into law, the UK’s bill to process migrants in Rwanda has been a political disaster. European governments should remember that not only does such a policy not work to deter migration, i...

The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries, according to multiple sour...

The country’s longest-standing Jewish newspaper ran fabricated stories that have prompted a widespread inquiry in Israel. But at home, the press regul...

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

The president chose security over justice. For how long will his country accept the price?

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