On Literature
2024
published. The Nation
title. Elsewhere Museums: Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented?
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published. The New Arab
title. 'Voice of Gaza' lives on: Refaat Alareer's poetic defiance honoured in posthumous book If I Must Die
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published. Middle East Eye
title. Salt Journals: Tunisian women describe their country’s legacy of political imprisonment
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published. The New Arab
title. The Book Censor's Library: An oppressive Orwellian nightmare
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published. Middle East Eye
title. Namesake: Reflections on Nusaiba, a warrior woman of early Islam
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published. The New Arab
title. My Friends: Friendship, family and the pain of exile
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2023
published. The Nation
title. The Last Cosmopolitan: Elias Canetti's 20th century
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published. The Atlantic
title. Six Books That Will Change How You Look at Art
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published. Middle East Eye
title. Iradj Bagherzade: A life in books, pushing new boundaries
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2022
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published. The New Arab
title. What Have You Left Behind? (Bushra al-Maqtari, trans. Sawad Hussain)
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published. Observer
title. Bambi, or Life in the Forest (Felix Salten, trans. Damion Searls)
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published. Jacobin
title. Telluria (Vladimir Sorokin, trans. Max Lawton)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. Photography in Cambodia: 1866 to the Present (Nicholas Coffill)
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published. The Atlantic
title. Nine Books That Came to Fame Slowly
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published. Los Angeles Review of Books
title. Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia (Abby Seiff)
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2021
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published. Review31
title. The Glance of the Medusa (László F. Földényi, trans. Jozefina Komporaly)
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published. Los Angeles Review of Books
title. Migratory Birds (Mariana Oliver, trans. Julia Sanches)
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published. The Markaz Review
title. Slipping (Mohamed Kheir, trans. Robin Moger)
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published. Ploughshares (blog)
title. Names for Light (Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint)
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published. Ploughshares (blog)
title. All the Roads are Open (Annemarie Schwartzenbach, trans. Isabel Fargo Cole)
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published. The Markaz Review
title. Impostures (Al Hariri, trans. Michael Cooperson)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. The Volga (Janet M Hartley)
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published. Review31
title. The Idols of ISIS (Aaron Tugendhaft)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. Purple Perilla (Can Xue)
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published. Mekong Review
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. Khalil (Yasmina Khadra)
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published. The Markaz Review
title. Silence is a Sense (Layla AlAmmar)
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published. The Times Literary Supplement
title. Pandora's Jar (Natalie Haynes)
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2020
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published. Michigan Quarterly Review
title. An Inventory of Losses (Judith Schalansky)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. The Fisherman King (Kathrina Mohd Daud)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Monica Sok)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. I Live In the Slums (Can Xue)
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published. World Literature Today
title. Infused: Adventures in Tea (Henrietta Lovell)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. Then the Fish Swallowed Him (Amir Ahmadi Arian)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. Gold Dust (Ibrahim al-Koni)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. Three Flames (Alan Lightman)
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published. The Asian Review of Books
title. The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland (Carol Isaacs)
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published. The Asian Review of Books, South China Morning Post
title. Year of the Rabbit (Tian Veasna)
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published. The Asian Review of Books, South China Morning Post, Cambodia Daily