Elias Khoury, a leading voice within contemporary Arabic literature and criticism, talks about the worldliness of Arabic literature, both as a writer and as a critical voice whose longstanding political engagement offers much-needed perspective on the possibilities and limitations of world literary debates today. Elias Khoury, a leading voice within contemporary Arabic literature and criticism, talks about the worldliness of Arabic literature, both as a writer and as a critical voice whose longstanding political engagement offers much-needed perspective on the possibilities and limitations of world literary debates today.