Absent Souls Laura Phillips on a remarkable novel by Lebanese Iman Humayadan Younes Iman Humayadan Younes’s fiction gives voice to characters inhabited by absence. This absence precludes any sense of belonging, either to the place they live in, or with … Continue reading
A Jew Abandoned in Baghdad Fiction by Mati Shemoelof To Almog Behar Salah has to be late on the one day when I didn’t take my mobile, and this crumbling café doesn’t have a single working phone. Of course … Continue reading
Deadly Seeking Employment Review By Toby Lichtig Despite some rays of economic hope, underlined by the recent construction boom in Ramallah, employment remains a precarious thing in the West Bank. Five years ago, things were even worse. Incensed at the … Continue reading