A short story by Jordanian writer Fadi Zaghout in which a traditional Jordanian "Jaha" ceremony takes place in...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Fadi Zaghmout
A selfish loser walks away from wasta and the Za’im' nefarious agenda he created and instrumentalized in this...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Youssef Manessa
Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a young Iranian woman in Tehran, albeit vehicled by fiction.
20 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
Cory Oldweiler reviews three novellas by Bethlehem born and raised, Ramallah-based poet and writer Ghassan Zaqtan.
13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Cory Oldweiler
In which a woman ponders the fate of the individuals who left behind their garments, now long forgotten,...
5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Salah Badis
A Cypriot writer's story about a forgotten child in an abandoned town the writer looked on to from...
5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan
A Kurdish boy in Sulemani province in northern Iraq, near the Iranian border, would do anything to own...
23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Diary Marif
Poet and novelist Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a refugee from Aleppo who winds up on...
9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
In Farah Ahamed's latest satire, one man's misunderstood greatness drives him to take preposterous action.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Farah Ahamed
In Hisham Bustani’s new short story, one man’s religious nightmare brings him face to face with an unlikely...
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Hisham Bustani
Caught between Beirut and a town in the Californian desert, Buthayna searches for the meaning amid life’s absurdities.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dina Abou Salem