Democratic Advance and Conflict Resolution in Post-Colonial GuyanaThis sequel to Seecoomars well received Contributions towards the Resolution of Conflict in Guyana offers practical suggestions for finding a way out of the current political impasse. At the heart of his argument is the desirability of bringing to village and township communities real control over their affairs. This is seen as a counter to the competition for state power that has brought Guyana to a state of continuous, simmering ethnic civil war.

His first collection

and the long-awaited Lebanon: Poems of Love and War by Nadia Tuéni

anthologist and broadcaster

We pay tribute to the late Iraqi poet Nazik al-Malaika who revolutionised modern Arabic poetry

occasionally funny

He is a longtime faculty member of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa

‘Entertaining… Taut and funny’

Ron joined the army in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

the travels in The Tethers are as much psychological as physical

Peter Mortimer stalks the streets of his past

and I’m no longer in the least embarrassed by him

In an in-depth interview renowned Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim talks about his writing