Books

Five books on East Africa's centuries-old connection with the Middle East

Writers from the East African coast memorialise the ties that bind the two regions, from a history of travel and trade

'Is there a Lebanon to save?' Writers reflect on Beirut blast

Against the Loveless World: A Palestinian tale of exile and resistance

Art and photography

Iranian gangsters: Tattoos, drug deals and a hidden underworld revealed

Caught between fact and fiction: How Palestinian authors write about their cities

Being brown in America: Stories of exile, identity and belonging

Five books to read on the history of Black Muslims

French novelist Faiza Guene on writing, anger and dreams of '98

Palestinian fashion from ancient Canaan to a thobe in Congress

Palestinian writing: Maps redrawn, futures reimagined

Saints, scholars and queens: The women who helped forge Islam

The Frightened Ones: 'I sometimes miss fear because it became a way of living'

My End is My Beginning: A wild sci-fi ride through a world gone mad

How Turkish TV, Bollywood and K-pop spell the end for the American century

'Between Beirut and the Moon': The story of an unfulfilled odyssey

'Shy Radicals': The book that demands an inclusive world for introverts

Plague and poetry: How Middle East authors have written about disease

Egyptian cult classics: 11 books that are worth reading

The Olive Trees' Jazz: Algiers poet speaks in music of the senses

Books and bombs: How I healed myself through fiction

Jared Kushner, here are 25 more books you should read about Palestine, Israel relations