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Fiction

5 July, 2024 • Karoline Kamel, Ranya Abdelrahman

Victoria—An Excerpt

We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya Abdelrahman.

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5 July, 2024 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

“An Inherited Offense”—a Levantine story on the island of Leros

In this short story by Nektaria Anastasiadou, the male and female terebinth trees of a Levantine childhood help heal a fractured family.

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5 July, 2024 • Qais Akbar Omar

“The Social Media Kids”—a short story by Qais Akbar Omar

In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and her independent mother in Kabul.

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5 July, 2024 • Poupeh Missaghi

The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami

The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash as a survivor of state horror.

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5 July, 2024 • Hamoud Saud, Zia Ahmed

“A Blind Window on Childhood”—a short story by Hamoud Saud

Omani writer Hamoud Saud’s short story “A Blind Window on Childhood” translated from Arabic by Zia Ahmed, reveals a family's secret history.

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5 July, 2024 • Odai Al Zoubi, Ziad Dallal

“Ten-Armed Gods”—a short story by Odai Al Zoubi

In a stream of consciousness short story by Odai Al Zoubi, a minister under investigation in the Syrian government awaits his fate.

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5 July, 2024 • Natasha Tynes

“The Lakshmi of Suburbia”—a story by Natasha Tynes

In Natasha Tynes’ new short story, “The Lakshmi of Suburbia,” an unhappy wife falls in love with herself and an internet influencer.

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5 July, 2024 • Stanko Uyi Srsen

“The Cockroaches”—flash fiction

In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a hefty price in flash fiction by Stanko Uyi Sršen.

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5 July, 2024 • Mohamed Farag, Nada Faris

“Keeping Up”—fiction from Mohamed Farag

The more things change, the more they become strange, or so finds the confused narrator of this Kafkaesque adventure in a developing country.

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5 July, 2024 • Diaa Jubaili, Chip Rossetti

“The Doll with the Purple Scarf”—flash fiction from Diaa Jubaili

Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under the Islamic State.

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5 July, 2024 • Nora Nagi, Nada Faris

“Certainty”—a short story by Nora Nagi

In this latest story by Nora Nagi, an Egyptian woman trapped in a loveless marriage far from home finds freedom.

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5 July, 2024 • MK Harb

“We Danced”—a story by MK Harb

In exercises to “release your inner child,” meditation, or psychotherapy, Beirutis search for mental and physical relief, in MK Harb's latest short story.

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5 July, 2024 • Salah Badis, Saliha Haddad

“Madame Djouzi”—a story by Salah Badis

Salah Badis' short story follows an elderly Algerian woman contemplating the end of her life amidst the threat of earthquakes or having to sell her cherished furniture.

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5 July, 2024 • Abdullah Nasser

“Frida Kahlo’s Mustache”—flash fiction from Abdullah Nasser

In this flash fiction by Abdullah Nasser, a couple struggling to conceive undergoes a transformation that changes everything.

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5 July, 2024 • Huda Hamed, Zia Ahmed

“Besara”—an excerpt from Things Are Not in Their Place

An excerpt from Omani writer Huda Hamed’s bittersweet coming-of-age novel about race and self in a new English translation by Zia Ahmed.

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