Fiction

Karim Kattan: “The Gravedigger”

Karim Kattan: “The Gravedigger”

The trilingual Palestinian novelist and short story writer weaves an engaging tale of love, death and redemption.

15 JUNE 2022 • By Karim Kattan
Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

Translator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq...

15 JUNE 2022 • By Hawra Al-Nadawi
“Intellectuals”—fiction from Hisham Bustani

“Intellectuals”—fiction from Hisham Bustani

From the fabulous — some would say surreal — Jordanian storyteller who gave us "The Monotonous Chaos of...

15 JUNE 2022 • By Hisham Bustani
“The Suffering Mother of the Whole World”—a story by Amany Kamal Eldin

“The Suffering Mother of the Whole World”—a story by Amany Kamal Eldin

A wayward daughter leaves Boston to spend a summer back home in Cairo, where she observes the decline...

15 JUNE 2022 • By Amany Kamal Eldin
Fiction: “A Day in the Life of a Married Man”

Fiction: “A Day in the Life of a Married Man”

A tale of conjugal love from the first complete story collection in English by Moroccan writer and cult...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Malika Moustadraf
Flash Fiction: “A Wife’s Diary”

Flash Fiction: “A Wife’s Diary”

In this flash fiction translated from Arabic, a woman poet finds herself at first thwarted by her possessive...

21 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Mbarek Sryfi
Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato

Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato

Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Hisham Bustani
Fadi Zaghmout’s banned-in-Jordan “Laila”: a TMR Valentine

Fadi Zaghmout’s banned-in-Jordan “Laila”: a TMR Valentine

In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh,...

14 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fiction from “Free Fall”: I fled the city as a murderer whose crime had just been uncovered

Fiction from “Free Fall”: I fled the city as a murderer whose crime had just been uncovered

TMR presents an exclusive excerpt from Abeer Esber's fourth novel, translated here by Nouha Homad, about a Damascene...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Abeer Esber
Fiction: Refugees in Serbia, an excerpt from “Silence is a Sense” by Layla AlAmmar

Fiction: Refugees in Serbia, an excerpt from “Silence is a Sense” by Layla AlAmmar

On the occasion of the paperback publication of Layla AlAmmar's novel Silence is a Sense, TMR presents this...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Robert Solé
“Turkish Delights”—fiction from Omar Foda

“Turkish Delights”—fiction from Omar Foda

Omar Foda draws on family lore and field work to weave together a satirical tale of ego and...

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Omar Foda
Three Levantine Tales

Three Levantine Tales

Writer, translator and artist Nouha Hamad tells three tales passed down as family legend connecting the 19th and...

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Deborah Kapchan
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