On Literature
2024
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
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