Books

It is hot and crowded. I am clinging to my mother’s hand like she is going to fly away and…

Ramadan is a time of fasting, self-restraint, and good deeds. It is also an occasion for storytelling, either in celebration…

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom (Farrar,…

Originally published in Cairo 1995, “East Winds, West Winds” is a milestone for both author Mahdi Issa al-Saqr and Iraqi…

Ramadan is a time of fasting, self-restraint and good deeds. It is also an occasion for storytelling, either in celebration…

Last week, as part of our Alf Leila We Leila Ramadan storytelling series, we brought you the tale of the…

In his new book “Caliph of Cairo” (AUC Press, 2009), Paul E. Walker, a historian of Medieval Islamic history based…

“The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam” By Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.)

Ramadan is a time of fasting, self-restraint, and good deeds. It is also an occasion for storytelling, either in celebration…

In his latest book of photographs on his favorite topic, Nicolass Beigman unveils the details of the enchanting world of…