Our literary editor takes us on a deluxe reader's tour of the stories behind the stories in the...
5 JULY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and...
5 JULY 2024 • By Qais Akbar Omar
The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
5 JULY 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Omani writer Hamoud Saud’s short story “A Blind Window on Childhood” translated from Arabic by Zia Ahmed, reveals...
5 JULY 2024 • By Hamoud Saud
In a stream of consciousness short story by Odai Al Zoubi, a minister under investigation in the Syrian...
5 JULY 2024 • By Odai Al Zoubi
In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a...
5 JULY 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
In this latest story by Nora Nagi, an Egyptian woman trapped in a loveless marriage far from home...
5 JULY 2024 • By Nora Nagi
Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under...
5 JULY 2024 • By Diaa Jubaili
While studying abroad in Alexandria, Bel Parker becomes a butcher's apprentice to immerse herself in the local language...
5 JULY 2024 • By Bel Parker
In exercises to “release your inner child,” meditation, or psychotherapy, Beirutis search for mental and physical relief, in...
5 JULY 2024 • By MK Harb
An excerpt from Omani writer Huda Hamed’s bittersweet coming-of-age novel about race and self in a new English...
5 JULY 2024 • By Huda Hamed
In Haidar Al Ghazali's short story, a Palestinian father during the war on Gaza makes an impossible choice.
5 JULY 2024 • By Haidar Al Ghazali
