Books

When We Were Arabs: 'I am not an Oriental'

Massoud Hayoun has written an important personal history of the lives of Jews who were dispossessed of their deep roots in the Arab world

Arab poet Mourid Barghouti: Watching the leaves fall

The comic artist who fled Syria and found himself

Egypt's Jews: One writer's homage to a lost history

The Boy at the Back of the Class: Hit children's writer on her story of kindness

Man Booker International Prize: Jokha Alharthi is first Arab winner

Oman's Jokha Alharthi wins prestigious Man Booker International prize

Laila Lalami: ‘Whoever tells the story controls the world’

Postcards from dystopia: The Jewish-American cartoonist hitting back at Zionism

The Parisian: An epic novel of love and loss in Palestine

Review: A trip into the dark heart of Syria

Apocalypse now: Why Arab authors are really writing about the end of the world

Arabic poetry: 10 writers, classic and modern, you need to read

Visa denied: Sudanese author is blocked by UK authorities

Death of a writer: Murder casts shadow over Baghdad's literary scene

Palestinian-American author changes narrative of her life with debut novel

Cairo: A tale of two book fairs

Calls for protest in Kuwait as banned book list reveals extent of censorship

Salt Houses: Tackling Israel-Palestine with a poet's licence

Hatim Kanaaneh

Where the books weren’t burned: Baghdad’s ancient library

P is for Palestine: The children's ABC book pro-Israel bullies tried to ban

Nada Elia