There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be "Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day."

Part of our focus, this Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth), is on classic Arabic works by women, especially those at the margins of (or neglected entirely by) critical and readerly attention.

Stealing Sleep, Reclaiming Tomorrow A Review of ‘The Sleep Thief’ by Ibtisam Azem Reviewed by Britta Stromeyer “I asked the gods to give me back my yesterday; they refused, except for one, the kindest among them. Upon me he bestowed the gift of stealing sleep so I could dream.” In the opening pages of The Sleep Thief by Ibtisam Azem (tr.

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This week, we're celebrating the World Cup with work from our Fall 2021 FOOTBALL issue.

"Ultimately, the arrival of Asad's Secret in English is as much an act of preservation as it is an act of translation."

"I pace this room alone, / fingertips brushing the wall, / memorizing each mark, each echo."

Alongside calls to stop the immeasurable human suffering in Gaza, a global effort has mobilized to save Palestinian literature, identity, and culture.

I can’t think of any literary genre that lies as habitually about its subject, or is as artistically lazy while claiming authenticity, as prison literature.

The Library of Arabic Literature was forced to shutter, ending a vital injection of Arabic into the bloodstream of translated literature.

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Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild ...

Some people leave prison quieter. Others return determined to speak out loud.

When your only transgression is refusing to abandon the children you swore to heal, what crime deserves being tortured?

The Silence They Couldn't Buy: When financial warfare fails and truth finds its voice.

The shutdown came just days after the entire official jury resigned, plunging the world's most prestigious art exhibition into it's deepest institutional crisis in decades.

34 million bought a congressional seat — but not the silence Washington expected.