In a translated tale from Palestine’s first lady of short stories, the newest technology exacts a toll on...
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After the war, a few scant survivors become one with the elements, and one takes to writing down...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Mansoura Ez-Eldin
In this short story by Egyptian writer Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, translated from Arabic, a man contends with his...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi
In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Maryam Mahjoba
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Maryam Haidari
Exclusive excerpt from Huda Fahreddine's "A Brief Time Under a Different Sun," translated from the Arabic by Rana...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Huda J. Fakhreddine
A young woman in Gaza who has already lost so much wants to live another day, in this...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
Recycling violence, a fighting droid wants to leave a dystopian world of mechanized blood sports, but a human...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By May Haddad
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
