Two phenomenal reads.

 unrelated except for how I can honour these texts through the creative work of our production:

Poetics of Contemporary Narratives in the Arabic Diaspora (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France) by F. Elizabeth Dahab

see:
Chapter 2: Poetics of Resistance: Soha Béchara, her Memoirs, and her Legacy in Mouawad's and Villeneuve's Incendies, incl.

    Soha Béchara's Legacy: Incendies the play and the film

    From Soha Béchara to Nawal Marwan: from history to historical drama

 

The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus (Author), Fred Bridgham (Translator), Edward Timms (Translator) 

wikipedia for context and history about this volume first published as a book in 1922