Jamal Mahjoub

Jamal Mahjoub has published both literary fiction and non-fiction. His work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, Le Monde, and Transition, as well as other publications, including Guernica. He also publishes crime fiction as PARKER BILAL. His memoir – A Line in the River, is a personal history of Sudan. His work has been widely translated and has won awards in Britain, France, and Spain.

War Forgets No One!

By Stella Gaitano, guest-edited by Jamal Mahjoub, translated by Najla Eltom January 15, 2025
“I had no choice but to become an enemy of war. I fought it through writing—and by writing, I seek to survive.”

A Closer Look at The Revenant

By February 25, 2016

The depictions of Native Americans in Hollywood are still Hollywood

The Prophet’s Path

By February 1, 2013

The journalist and "accidental theologist" discusses distinguishing human from legend in her latest book on the founder of Islam.

Life Under Lockdown

By August 15, 2012

Residents of the Gaza Strip are restricted in their movements, in what they can bring into and send out of their land, even how far off their shores they can fish. Words, though, know no borders.