Genre hubs
Long-form guides to the regional and thematic traditions of Arabic literature — from the Egyptian novel to Sufi mystical poetry. Each hub gathers featured authors, recommended editions, and a written orientation.
The Egyptian Novel
From Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy to the Tahrir-era social panorama, the central Arabic novelistic tradition.
Genre Hub · 3 authorsGulf Poetry
The poetic traditions of the Arabian Peninsula, from the bedouin nabati to the Saudi modernists.
Genre Hub · 9 authorsLevantine Short Fiction
The short story and novel in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan — densely urban, frequently political.
Genre Hub · 5 authorsMaghrebi Literature
The fiction and poetry of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania, in Arabic and Tamazight.
Genre Hub · 8 authorsPalestinian Literature
A literature defined, since 1948, by exile, return, and resistance.
Genre Hub · 10 authorsIraqi Literature
Modernist Baghdad, the long shadow of war, and the diaspora that has carried the literature out into the world.
Genre Hub · 4 authorsClassical Arabic Poetry
The thirteen-century inheritance from the pre-Islamic odes through the Andalusian and post-Mamluk traditions.
Genre Hub · 15 authorsArab Women Writers
Women novelists, poets, and essayists who have reshaped Arabic literature over the last century.
Genre Hub · 5 authorsArabic Short Stories
The short story as the central form of Arabic prose modernism.
Genre Hub · 8 authorsArabic Novels in Translation
The expanding canon of Arabic novels available to English readers.
Genre Hub · 2 authorsSufi & Mystical Poetry
The mystical strand of the Arabic poetic tradition, from al-Hallaj to Ibn ‘Arabi to Adonis.
Genre Hub · 9 authorsArab Diaspora Fiction
Arab writers writing from outside the Arab world, from the Mahjar to the present.