A short episode about Muti'ah Badruddeen's novel, Rekiya and Z, discussing the following: Muslim...
Review: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (Oman/Yemen/Somalia)
Before starting this book, I had been thinking to myself how long it has been since I’d got so...
Love from Mecca to Medina by S. K. Ali (USA/Qatar/Saudi Arabia)
Love from Mecca to Medina by S.K. Ali, sequel to the hugely popular Love from A to Z, returns us...
Mini-review: River Spirit by Leila Aboulela (Sudan/South Sudan)
Sudan - present or past - is not prominently featured in English-language literature, with Tayeb...
Mini-review: We Have Buried the Past by Abdelkrim Ghallab (Morocco)
To read about the Moroccan road to independence as an Algerian was both a familiar and...
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh (Focus: Syria)
Set in 2011-ish blockaded Homs, squarely in the crosshairs of the Syrian military's inhumane...
Cocoon by Zhang Yueran (Focus: China)
When is a crime thriller not really a thriller but more of a series of self-discoveries on the...
Mini-ep: Un homme, ça ne pleure pas by Faïza Guène (Algeria/France) – English trans.: Men Don’t Cry
On this journey, a casual tour of this French Algerian novel exploring - Alienation between...
Mini-review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Focus: India)
Through this book, I have discovered a master audiobook narrator. Aysha Kala did an amazing job of...
Finding Mr Perfectly Fine by Tasneem Abdur-Rashid (UK/Bengali)
Finding Mr Perfectly Fine by Tasneem Abdur-Rashid is a newly-published romantic comedy that...
Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa (Syria)
[Spoiler alert: This novel is more about the journey than the ending, but if you don't want the...
The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya/China)
I first came across The Dragonfly Sea shortly after it was published in 2019. It attracted my...
There’s No Melancholy in Modernity (Film: Persuasion, 2022 (UK))
The new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion was introduced to me through generally...
Review: Ayesha Dean – The Istanbul Intrigue by Melati Lum (Australia/Turkey)
While picture books and YA novels by Muslim writers have proliferated in recent years, the...
That Can Be Arranged by Huda Fahmy (USA)
A respectable number of chuckles accompanied my reading the comic-meets-illustrated novella That...
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