Can a man who loves a woman prove his mettle by taking proper care of a cactus that...
2 JULY 2023 • By Mohammed Alnaas
An Afghan refugee, survivor of a shipwreck, washes up on the shores of southern France and applies for...
2 JULY 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
In Salar Abdoh’s new short story, Iranian militias return from war to a life and country to which...
2 JULY 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
Egyptian writer Ahmed Awny divigates between fiction and reality in this decentering short story.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ahmed Awny
A solitary bachelor, seeking success as a writer, wonders what he has to do in contemporary Cairo to...
15 JULY 2022 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi
The Egyptian novelist and author of "Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison" finds versions of Islam in...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Ahmed Naji
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner award, novelist Rabih Alameddine tells an essential story from his Beirut childhood.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Rabih Alameddine
One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Alireza Iranmehr
In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
A wayward daughter leaves Boston to spend a summer back home in Cairo, where she observes the decline...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Amany Kamal Eldin
In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh,...
14 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Fadi Zaghmout
Former prisoner and Egyptian writer in exile Ahmed Naji contemplates what it means to be a "brown writer"...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Ahmed Naji
