Books

Barack Obama's memoir is a desperate attempt to seal a legacy. It fails

Carefully choreographed memoir turns a tidy phrase but cannot hide what an ordinary American president he turned out to be

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

Fear and loathing in Gaza: Tales of a life under siege

Voices of a lost homeland: The poetry of Western Sahara

'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

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

Meet Istanbul's shop owner inspiring children to read books

Student translates literature into Kurdish to celebrate native language

'We live with death': Iraqi poets on loss, grief and hope

Syria poet Adonis wins (misses out on) Nobel Literature Prize

Don't speak to strangers if you want to fit in in Sweden, comic book tells newcomers

BOOK REVIEW: The Devils of Cardona

BOOK REVIEW: International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders

BOOK REVIEW: Witness to the deaths of Iran’s forgotten heroes