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  • ‘The child deep inside my soul / weeps for our old days’: Arabic haikus of memory, grief, beauty

    ‘The child deep inside my soul / weeps for our old days’: Arabic haikus of memory, grief, beauty

    Nujoom Al-Ghanem Ibrahim Fawzy
    · Jan 22, 2026 · 11:41 am
  • Sunday book pick: A woman in prostitution on death row tells her story in ‘Woman at Point Zero’

    Sunday book pick: A woman in prostitution on death row tells her story in ‘Woman at Point Zero’

    Sayari Debnath
    · Jan 18, 2026 · 01:30 pm
  • ‘The Book of Disappearance’: The dangerous ease with which colonial dispossession can become routine

    ‘The Book of Disappearance’: The dangerous ease with which colonial dispossession can become routine

    Neeraja Srinivasan
    · Apr 19, 2025 · 04:00 pm
  • EBRD Literature Prize shortlist: This Arabic novel explores the struggle to make sense of death

    EBRD Literature Prize shortlist: This Arabic novel explores the struggle to make sense of death

    Alawiya Sobh Max Weiss
    · Mar 27, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Pakistan wants to make Arabic compulsory in Islamabad’s schools. What will that achieve?

    Pakistan wants to make Arabic compulsory in Islamabad’s schools. What will that achieve?

    Pervez Hoodbhoy, Dawn.com
    · Feb 17, 2021 · 01:30 pm
  • ‘Celestial Bodies’: The Man Booker International Prize winner helps highlight writings by Arab women

    ‘Celestial Bodies’: The Man Booker International Prize winner helps highlight writings by Arab women

    Shadya Radhi, The Conversation
    · Jun 03, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • Watch: These Lebanon neighbourhoods are fighting each other, but spelling ‘peace’ on their roofs

    Watch: These Lebanon neighbourhoods are fighting each other, but spelling ‘peace’ on their roofs

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 23, 2017 · 08:00 pm
  • Hidden history: An A-Z of Britain's Arabic propaganda

    Hidden history: An A-Z of Britain's Arabic propaganda

    Louis Allday
    · May 01, 2016 · 11:30 pm