Books

'Beirut Fragments' captures the horror Israel keeps inflicting on Lebanon

Jean Said Makdisi's reissued memoir recounts bombardment, siege and civilian resistance in scenes painfully familiar from Gaza and Israel's renewed assault on Lebanon

Towards Palestinian Liberation: How resistance travels across borders

America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region

Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

Counterrevolution in Egypt: How Sisi broke the dream of a new republic

The Foundations of Zionism: An epic work of Palestinian scholarship now available in English

Hebrew Orientalism: How Jewish scholarship on the Arab world helped colonise Palestine

Douglas Murray on Israel and Gaza: Spinning a bestseller from his own ‘bullshit’

Revolutionary Warfare: How France lost Algeria but developed a new kind of social war

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

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

Cairo: A tale of two book fairs

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

Hatim Kanaaneh

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

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