Yussef El Guindi explores an anxious traveler's mind racing with thoughts of what to say as he faces...
2 JULY 2023 • By Yussef El Guindi
Ahmed Awadalla’s new story reveals sexual pleasure and doubt in a bathhouse in Beirut.
2 JULY 2023 • By Ahmed Awadalla
Can a crush on a teacher survive marriage, revolution, and a sinking, refugee dingy on the Mediterranean Sea?
2 JULY 2023 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Sometimes you have to escape everything you know in order to become yourself.
2 JULY 2023 • By Abdellah Taïa
A fiction that celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who embrace their agency.
2 JULY 2023 • By Bint Magdaliyya
In Ghadeer Ahmed's latest story, three women with no abortion rights refuse to be victims of exploitation and...
2 JULY 2023 • By Ghadeer Ahmed
In an excerpt from an unpublished novella by Malu Halasa, ice skating in the desert is more than...
2 JULY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
The power of the imagination may not be enough to save a young girl’s hopes when faced with...
2 JULY 2023 • By Mona Al-Shammari
Samira Azzam was a Palestinian short story writer whose work influenced her more famous successor, Ghassan Kanafani.
2 JULY 2023 • By Samira Azzam
In this excerpt from Shady Lewis Botros' latest novel, a child’s innocent counting game masks a disturbing reality.
2 JULY 2023 • By Shady Lewis Botros
A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey,...
19 JUNE 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
In a dystopian world, thanks to AI, people no longer die because they can be upgraded to better...
4 JUNE 2023 • By Fadi Zaghmout
