The Muslim world—including predominantly Islamic countries spanning Asia to the Middle East to Africa, as well as the global diasporic communities—has an incredibly rich literary history. From the poems of...
Palestinian roommates in the film “In Between.”CreditCreditFilm Movement Hailed as a fresh, frank look at the lives of young Palestinian women, Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut film, “In Between,” follows three female...
Jhabvala’s work scrutinizes societies never quite her own. “Once you’re a refugee,” she said, “I guess you’re always a refugee.” Photograph by Fay Godwin / Album / Alamy At the beginning of...
“Ministry of Utmost Happiness” is Arundhati Roy’s Second novel, published 20 years after her debut novel, “The God of Small Things”. This novel, like the previous one and the majority...
Illustration: Guardian Design It last year’s Guardian Opinion Christmas party – modest affairs at which those who want to dance are outnumbered by those who want to talk...
(Shahad Al Rawi) Photo by Kareem El Deeb The Iraqi writer Shahad Al Rawi has won the Book Festival’s 2018 First Book Award with her debut novel, The Baghdad Clock. The...
I enter through the caverns mouth, Into a bustling fair, And all about there’s shouts without, Of rumoured trades allure, And goods not seen before, Which tempt me to procure,...
Industry on the go These are good times for the Pakistan film industry, at least in terms of the number of films that are being made. Nowadays, three ad film...
The Sahel region stretches like a wide belt across Africa’s northern midriff. It is a 3,860-km semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land that marks a transition from the...
My book The Case Against Jihad has just been published, aptly on the anniversary of 9/11. This may seem rather a late repudiation of the hateful ideology behind those attacks, but it remains...