Associations and thoughts on an unusual day of the week from a Kurdish perspective

"Der Untertan" (The Loyal Subject), "Sonnenfinsternis" (Darkness at Noon) and "Sansibar oder der letzte Grund" (Flight to Afar) - How characters from earlier novels can reflect the zeitgeist of today

Three Syrian faces for one body

Thomas Kuhn, Cinema, and the AI Age of Revolutions

There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around.

Fantasy, science fiction and poetry play an important role in China as advertising media for state nationalism and social media companies. But boys' love novels are seen as a threat to family policy and are prosecuted...

A few reflections on my life, my writings and my two homelands, Syria and Germany

A rumour is circulating in some African countries: the French state is organising penis thefts to offset declining fertility. The rumour, spread by Russian propaganda, has become fake news

A gender-sensitive reading of the Arab Booker Prize

My lost Cairo