In this excerpt from Badar Salem's "Deserted as a Crowded Room," Majdal falls in love with a West...
16 AUGUST 2024 • By Badar Salem
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas
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
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
In exercises to “release your inner child,” meditation, or psychotherapy, Beirutis search for mental and physical relief, in...
5 JULY 2024 • By MK Harb
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
Areej Gamal's translated short story from Egypt depicts a potted plant and forbidden love that become intertwined, with...
3 MAY 2024 • By Areej Gamal
