Aisha Abdel Gawad

is the author of Between Two Moons, winner of a New York City Book Award, a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and the Maya Angelou Book Award, and longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her short fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in places such as The Kenyon Review, Bon Appetit, Literary Hub, American Short Fiction, The Muslim World, New Orleans Review, and Mizna. She is currently at work on her second novel. Check out her Instagram (@aisha_abdelg) and her Facebook.

“Paradise”—a short story

“Paradise”—a short story

In this quietly devastating short story set in Gaza, the sea offers a fleeting illusion of paradise —...

1 MAY 2026 • By Aisha Abdel Gawad
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