The banalities of domestic life are familiar, but the conditions under which they are presented are utterly strange. It would be funny if the stakes weren’t so real. Khawla Ibraheem in A Knock ...

And I cried so much while writing the book. I needed those tears to write. I don’t know what people in the Aroma cafe I wrote ...

"The Invasion," however, doesn't set out to immerse viewers in the chaos of armed warfare, instead offering a view of everyday life continuing (in frequently compromised, disrupted fashion ...

Amid armed conflicts continuing in Gaza, this week we look at five thought-provoking books ... life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.” Set during ...

Each person was given a ration book. A 'point' scheme was introduced ... Many people were better fed during wartime food rationing than before the war years. Infant mortality rates declined ...