Back in 2012 Jonathan Littell spent two weeks working as a ″Le Monde″ journalist in the Syrian city of Homs, the focus of resistance to Bashar Al-Assad′s regime. His diary from the period is a graphic account, urgently conveyed as events unfold at breakneck speed. Nahrain Al-Mousawi read the bookMore

Published in English translation in June 2015, ″Telepathy″ is an exercise in alienation characterised by metafictional themes and double identities. Yet does the collapse of reality live up to its promise? Nahrain al-Mousawi read the bookMore

Originally published in Arabic in 2012, ″The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol″ was only translated into English this year. It contains many of the tropes that Elias Khoury readers will find familiar: shifting perspectives, an unreliable narrator, obscured memories, uncertain truths, and reflections upon narration. Nahrain al-Mousawi has read the bookMore

The world is familiar with reports about the exploitation of migrant labourers in the Gulf region. In 2013, Saud Alsanousi's book "The Bamboo Stalk", which focuses on the experiences of a young man in Kuwait who is half Kuwaiti, half Filipino, won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This novel shines a light on the discrimination and rejection experienced by so many migrants in this region. Nahrain Al-Mousawi read the bookMore