Far from home, in inhospitable conditions, an unlikely friendship is struck.
2 APRIL 2023 • By Hany Ali Said
Novelist Omar El Akkad recounts a beguiling coming-of-age story set in Doha, where he grew up before the...
2 APRIL 2023 • By Omar El Akkad
Cairo-born novelist Leila Aboulela weaves the sad story of two sisters' alienation on the eve of the uprising...
5 MARCH 2023 • By Leila Aboulela
MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in...
5 MARCH 2023 • By MK Harb
Palestinian writer Samir El-Youssef, born in a refugee camp, tells the story of his family's uprooting from Lebanon.
5 MARCH 2023 • By Samir El-Youssef
Amal, a student who lives in a Palestinian refugee camp, takes up drama as an outlet for the...
27 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Asim Rizki
An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Inaam Kachachi
This bleak and hyper real short story by Hassan Blasim is reminiscent of Ghassan Kanafani's novella "Men in the...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Hassan Blasim
When the society surrounding them begins to break down, a Beiruti family's troubles echo the macrocosm.
15 DECEMBER 2022 • By Sarah AlKahly-Mills
A Greek fisherman has to turn the corner on his lifelong passion, freeing himself from his past.
15 DECEMBER 2022 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
A Palestinian family mysteriously disintegrates while violence permeates the valley in which they reside.
15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Farah Ahamed finds in the unsung working class Anarkali a heroine for the ages.
15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Farah Ahamed
