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Belgian writer Georges Simenon penned more than 70 novels featuring the conscientious cop. Getty

Literature's enduring hero: The Inspector Maigret novels will soon all be available in English

The Parisian sleuth, and his author Georges Simenon, are some of the most beloved characters of the modern detective novel genre

September 22, 2019

Meals one sees in period paintings of the Mughals can be deceptive: was this a picture of reality or an idealised image meant to project power and pomp? Getty Images

'The Mughal Feast': unravelling the mysterious history of the emperors' cuisine

Learn of feasts from the court of Shah Jahan in a new book of royal recipes

September 15, 2019

Scroll down to find a recipe for duck egg curry, which appears in 'Mandalay' by Mimi Aye. Christian Barnett

'Mandalay' helps uncover the mystery of Burmese cuisine

Author Mimi Aye writes a warm and gentle book that uncovers the mystery of Burmese cuisine

September 1, 2019

Author Nayantara Sahgal with Frida Kahlo, centre. Wikimedia Commons

Nayantara Sahgal’s stark choice for India: it’s freedom or fascism

As the author releases her new novel, 'The Fate of Butterflies', we question why the 91-year-old's words still resonate so deeply in a modern landscape

April 20, 2019

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz smiles in his Cairo home in1988 AFP

Championing the unsung, silent heroes of literature

Boyd Tonkin’s celebration of the translators who bring us books from around the world is a literary panorama of great work

September 27, 2018

Marryam Reshii, one of India’s most respected and loved food writers. Hachette

Marryam Reshii’s 'The Flavour of Spice' has an extra kick

We chat to the food writer about her book, which details the history and uses of spices

July 21, 2018

Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, the author of history-rich novels such as Pyramid Texts and his latest, The Book of Epiphanies. Marwan Naamani / AFP

Latest in a string of history-obsessed Arabic novels

Roving freely across a thousand years of Arab history, Gamal al-Ghitani's latest novel presents, like his previous works, a collage of the multifarious roots of Egyptian identity, writes Chandrahas Choudhury

June 8, 2013

Bombay, which is now Mumbai, before partition. Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

Book review: Manto's daring short stories written during subcontinent partition

Saadat Manto's newly translated short stories exploring life in the cosmopolitan, laissez-faire Bombay of the 1930s and 1940s have enduring appeal, writes Chandrahas Choudhury

March 2, 2013

The juxtaposition of old and new, light and dark in Mumbai is the focus of many of this book's tales. Getty Images

Mumbai Noir: dark, eclectic tales about the city's thriving underworld

The stories in this noir anthology are as raw and diverse as the city of Mumbai itself, humming with the feel for the city's pulse and patter.

July 28, 2012

A street scene of Lahore in 1946, months before Partition. Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

This Is Not That Dawn: India and Pakistan in the time of Partition

Yashpal's 1,100-page novel presents a searing narrative on a wound that has never quite healed.

April 20, 2012

Becoming Dickens / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst / Harvard University Press / Dh111

Becoming Dickens: 'from sketch writer to novelist'

In Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's latest book, one of a raft of new releases that mark this week's bicentenial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the author focuses on the literary giant's early career.

February 3, 2012

Kashmiri protesters throw stones at Indian paramilitary troops during a protest in the city of Srinagar. Rouf Bhat / AFP

The Kashmiri resistance movement comes of age

In his new book, Sanjay Kak examines the Kashmiri resistance movement, a widespread, centreless struggle for the right of self-determination that he believes has finally come of age.

December 8, 2011

Beautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro. Canongate

Beautiful Thing: The dark world of a Mumbai dance bar

Sonia Faleiro's non-fiction narrative unravels a society blighted in equal measures by decadence and poverty swirling around a teenaged Indian dancer.

August 19, 2011

Dancing Lessons For
The Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal
New York Review Books Classics
Dh65

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: take a deep breath

Told in one meandering sentence that offers readers no pause, stories and characters come sailing out of nowhere in Bohumil Hrabal's early and experimental work.

July 22, 2011

Saints and Sinners, Edna O'Brien, Faber & Faber, Dh78

Saints and Sinners: Ornate without being mannered

The Irish writer Edna O'Brien's new collection of short stories may be a late arrival in terms of the writer's age, but there has been no diminution in her sensibility.

May 20, 2011

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Houbara bustards are a vulnerable species. Pawan Singh / The National

Qatari royals arrested over illegal houbara hunting

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Lebanese anti-government protesters burn tyres to block a road in al-Mina town in the northern port city of Tripoli on December 10, 2019. AFP / Fathi AL-MASRI

Corruption an ongoing issue across Middle East, new survey finds

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Supporters of Lebanese Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal wave flags in front of army soldiers in the capital Beirut, Lebanon, November 25, 2019. Shortly before midnight yesterday supporters of the Lebanese Hezbollah and Amal movements attacked anti-government protesters in Beirut, shouting insults and chanting in support of the chiefs of their groups before attacking some demonstrators, with army reinforcements intervening to diffuse tensions. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO

Iranian threat to ‘flatten Tel Aviv’ from Lebanon draws ire in Beirut

MENA

Boris Johnson has apologised for Islamophobia within his party.

Will British Muslims back Boris Johnson in the UK election?

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Chandrahas Choudhury

Literature's enduring hero: The Inspector Maigret novels will soon all be available in English

'The Mughal Feast': unravelling the mysterious history of the emperors' cuisine

'Mandalay' helps uncover the mystery of Burmese cuisine

Nayantara Sahgal’s stark choice for India: it’s freedom or fascism

Championing the unsung, silent heroes of literature

Marryam Reshii’s 'The Flavour of Spice' has an extra kick

Latest in a string of history-obsessed Arabic novels

Book review: Manto's daring short stories written during subcontinent partition

Mumbai Noir: dark, eclectic tales about the city's thriving underworld

This Is Not That Dawn: India and Pakistan in the time of Partition

Becoming Dickens: 'from sketch writer to novelist'

The Kashmiri resistance movement comes of age

Beautiful Thing: The dark world of a Mumbai dance bar

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: take a deep breath

Saints and Sinners: Ornate without being mannered

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Asia

MENA

MENA

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