Spring 2026 · Vol. I · No. 2 Rabat · Paris · London

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Reviews

Book reviews — novels, history, poetry, memoir, biography.

Static and Signal

A Cairo childhood emerges through the voices of radio.

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Memoir

Laila Mahmoud’s My Father’s Radio uses a single object to illuminate urban memory and family rupture.

The Divided Ledger

Salima Oumari’s debut wrestles with inheritance and estrangement.

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Fiction

Oumari’s The Salt Notebooks charts a woman’s return to her fractured family across two countries.

The Minor Archive

A biography of a forgotten Moroccan intellectual resurrects an impossible past.

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Biography

a literary biographer’s an obscure modernist and the Failure of Arab Modernity reclaims an obscure but crucial figure.

The Turning Tide

A new history rescues Morocco from terrestrial thinking.

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History

Hassan Boumediene’s Atlantic Maghreb rewrites the Mediterranean as a space of Moroccan agency.

The Sweetness Examined

a contemporary poet’s poems refuse easy consolation.

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Poetry

In Apricot Year, a Lebanese poet confronts time, memory, and the quotidian resilience of women.