15 December, 2020
Joseph Turner
Mina Gorji, Art of Escape. Shortlisted in the Oxonian Review Summer Book Competition
16 March, 2015
Kristin Grogan
Kristin Grogan speaks to the poet about writing, war, and the Epic of Gilgamesh
24 November, 2014
Karthick Manoharan
Manoharan considers the limits of the moral superiority of anarchism in the latest collection of Chomsky's essays.
13 October, 2014
Dominic Davies
A Bird Is Not A Stone is simultaneously a testament to the power of poetry and the resolute and ongoing cultural production of Palestinian poets across the world.
3 February, 2014
Peter Hill
Personal testimonies of the Arab Spring are an antidote to cynicism and resignation in the Western view of the risings, writes Peter Hill.
Special Issue: Comics
23 December, 2013
Charlotta Salmi
The comic form lends itself to political commentary and resistance, and has been taken up to great effect by protestors in Iran, writes Charlotta Salmi.
Dominic Davies
Joe Sacco's journalistic project to give a voice to the unheard self-consciously navigates the politics, and problems, of representation.
27 May, 2013
Harriet Fitch Little
Shereen El Feki offers a bold, wide-ranging, and even-handed analysis of sex, politics and religion in the Arab world.
16 January, 2012
Peter Hill
Margaret Litvin's Hamlet's Arab Journey examines the staging of Hamlet in the Middle East.