“Eyes Full of Empty” — Jérémie Guez, in Noirish Paris

5/5/2016

If walking the dark streets of Paris, mayhem around every corner, learning skulduggery from residents of the banlieues, is your idea …

Tigers on the Tenth Day — Fabled Syria

2/18/2016

Zakaria Tamer (b 1931 in Damascus) has been in exile from his native Syria in England since the early 1980s where …

7/24/2012

Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does …

12/29/2010

I gave, and received, this year a notable reminder that the cultures of the Middle-East — Iranian, Arabic, Turkish– have …