“The Agency”—a story by Natasha Tynes
A shrewd businesswoman runs a matchmaking agency in Amman that finds brides for male clients based on a virginity scale.
A shrewd businesswoman runs a matchmaking agency in Amman that finds brides for male clients based on a virginity scale.
In Ola Mustapha's new story, a man falls for the seduction of a film and it becomes the blueprint for love, life, and even death.
After her controlling husband dies, a wealthy woman obsesses over the neighborhood crows until her maid decides to take matters into her own hands.
An Afghan refugee, survivor of a shipwreck, washes up on the shores of southern France and applies for asylum in Montpellier.
In MK Harb's latest story, a man steps out of his home in Beirut after two years of living in isolation to a life-changing encounter.
In Mai Al-Nakib’s new short story, a woman makes a Herculean effort to preserve the memory and artwork of her late husband.
In Salar Abdoh’s new short story, Iranian militias return from war to a life and country to which they have difficulty adjusting.
Yussef El Guindi explores an anxious traveler's mind racing with thoughts of what to say as he faces border and customs control.
Ahmed Awadalla’s new story reveals sexual pleasure and doubt in a bathhouse in Beirut.
Can a crush on a teacher survive marriage, revolution, and a sinking, refugee dingy on the Mediterranean Sea?
A fiction that celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who embrace their agency.
Sometimes you have to escape everything you know in order to become yourself.