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On Literature

2024

 

 

published. Middle East Eye

title. Salt Journals: Tunisian women describe their country’s legacy of political imprisonment

published. The New Arab

title. The Book Censor's Library: An oppressive Orwellian nightmare

published. Middle East Eye

title. Namesake: Reflections on Nusaiba, a warrior woman of early Islam

published. The New Arab

title. My Friends: Friendship, family and the pain of exile

2023

 

 

published. The Nation

title. The Last Cosmopolitan: Elias Canetti's 20th century

published. The Atlantic

title. Six Books That Will Change How You Look at Art

published. Middle East Eye

title. Iradj Bagherzade: A life in books, pushing new boundaries

2022

published. The New Arab

title. What Have You Left Behind? (Bushra al-Maqtari, trans. Sawad Hussain)

published. Observer

title. Bambi, or Life in the Forest (Felix Salten, trans. Damion Searls)

published. Jacobin

title. Telluria (Vladimir Sorokin, trans. Max Lawton)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. Photography in Cambodia: 1866 to the Present (Nicholas Coffill)

published. The Atlantic

title. Nine Books That Came to Fame Slowly

published. Los Angeles Review of Books

title. Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia (Abby Seiff)

2021

published. Review31

title. The Glance of the Medusa (László F. Földényi, trans. Jozefina Komporaly)

published. Los Angeles Review of Books

title. Migratory Birds (Mariana Oliver, trans. Julia Sanches)

published. The Markaz Review

title. Slipping (Mohamed Kheir, trans. Robin Moger)

published. Ploughshares (blog)

title. Names for Light (Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint)

published. Ploughshares (blog)

title. All the Roads are Open (Annemarie Schwartzenbach, trans. Isabel Fargo Cole)

published. The Markaz Review

title. Impostures (Al Hariri, trans. Michael Cooperson)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. The Volga (Janet M Hartley)

published. Review31

title. The Idols of ISIS (Aaron Tugendhaft)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. Purple Perilla (Can Xue)

published. Mekong Review

title. Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyahh)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. Khalil (Yasmina Khadra)

published. The Markaz Review

title. Silence is a Sense (Layla AlAmmar)

published. The Times Literary Supplement

title. Pandora's Jar (Natalie Haynes)

2020

published. Michigan Quarterly Review

title. An Inventory of Losses (Judith Schalansky)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. The Fisherman King (Kathrina Mohd Daud)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Monica Sok)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. I Live In the Slums (Can Xue)

published. World Literature Today

title. Infused: Adventures in Tea (Henrietta Lovell)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. Then the Fish Swallowed Him (Amir Ahmadi Arian)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. Gold Dust (Ibrahim al-Koni)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. Three Flames (Alan Lightman)

published. The Asian Review of Books

title. The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland (Carol Isaacs)

published. The Asian Review of Books, South China Morning Post

title. Year of the Rabbit (Tian Veasna)

published. The Asian Review of Books, South China Morning Post, Cambodia Daily

title. A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land (Suon Sorin)

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