Fiction

A Day In Damascus

A Day In Damascus

A console included with an arthouse film in Syria allows viewers to watch characters from various films form...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Sanad Tabbaa
Play the Game by Fatima Daas—an excerpt

Play the Game by Fatima Daas—an excerpt

This excerpt from Play the Game by French-Algerian author Fatima Daas explores what it means to grow up...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Fatima Daas
Everything You Need To Know About X — an excerpt

Everything You Need To Know About X — an excerpt

This excerpt from Ahmed El-Fakharani's latest novel questions whether virtual friendships are real or simply a facade masking...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Ahmed El Fakharany
Somewhere Other Than Here

Somewhere Other Than Here

Two Lebanese men who knew each other in childhood meet. Before they can become lovers, they must first...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Youssef Manessa
War and War

War and War

Winner of the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize — A foreign correspondent confronts devastation and violence before crossing a...

26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Hussain A. Ayoub
Diba’s House

Diba’s House

“Diba’s House” is a fictional retelling of events in Wadi Salib in Palestine and won Second Place in...

26 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Sara Masry
A Safe Place

A Safe Place

A Christian woman in solitary confinement in a Pakistani prison is recognized as a voice of reason, even...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Farah Ahamed
The Intersection

The Intersection

A drink at a pub, a conversation about psychoanalysis, madness, despair and pain—an encounter.

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Ayça Çubukçu
The Midday Ghoul

The Midday Ghoul

Inspired by a famous Libyan folktale, “Azouz il-Gayla,” the tale intends to discipline children to keep them from...

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Safa Elnaili
مقتطف من رواية “هواء مالح” لهبة خميس

مقتطف من رواية “هواء مالح” لهبة خميس

مشهدان من رواية بديعة، عن حادث تصادم هائل، وعامل ينقل السيارات المحطمة ويتفاجأ للمرة الأولى بفتاة على شفا...

1 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By هبة خميس
قصة قصيرة لبدار سالم: نونينال-2

قصة قصيرة لبدار سالم: نونينال-2

عن قلق التقدم في العمر، وظهور رائحة جسد مميزة مرتبطة بالعجائز، ومحاولة التخلص من تلك الرائحة. تكتب بدار...

18 AUGUST 2025 • By Badar Salem
مقتطف من رواية أحمد عبد اللطيف: أصل الأنواع

مقتطف من رواية أحمد عبد اللطيف: أصل الأنواع

في أحدث روايات أحمد عبد اللطيف «أصل الأنواع»، يتخذ الكاتب المصري من تيار الوعي أسلوبًا سرديًا يشغل الرواية...

18 AUGUST 2025 • By أحمد عبد اللطيف
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