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Fiction

5 July, 2024 • Haidar Al Ghazali, Rana Asfour

“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali

In Haidar Al Ghazali's short story, a Palestinian father during the war on Gaza makes an impossible choice.

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3 May, 2024 • Areej Gamal, Manal Shalaby

“Cotton Flower”—a short story by Areej Gamal

Areej Gamal's translated short story from Egypt depicts a potted plant and forbidden love that become intertwined, with an unexpected outcome

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3 May, 2024 • Ralph Hubbell

“The Forgotten”—a short story by Oğuz Atay

Regarded internationally as one of Turkey’s greatest writers, Oğuz Atay (1934-1977) remains largely untranslated into English.

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26 April, 2024 • Joumana Haddad

“I, Mariam”—a story by Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad's short story delves into a woman's lifelong journey of navigating her relationship with the hijab.

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1 April, 2024 • MK Harb

“Paris of the Middle East”—fiction by MK Harb

With tarot cards and a recipe for pickled turnips, Beirutis bid farewell to yet another friend leaving on a “talent passport” to somewhere else.

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3 March, 2024 • Mohammad Rabie, Robin Moger

“The Minisecures”—excerpt from The History of the Gods of Egypt

Bonfire of the vanities: A second-rate artist imagines the prophets and the grand, holy tales of monotheism.

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3 March, 2024 • Faris Lounis, Jordan Elgrably

“The Map of a Genocide Victim”—fiction from Faris Lounis

A few entries on a genocidal map...A walk in the Valley of Death that is the war on Gaza and the reckoning to come.

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4 February, 2024 • Farah Ahamed

“Drinking Tea at Lahore Chai Masters”—a story by Farah Ahamed

When Mehreen and Asma compare notes, they realize they are still not unfettered lovers.

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29 January, 2024 • Amy Omar

Inci Atrek’s Intercultural Novel—Holiday Country

Amy Omar explores her own Turkish American identity while relating to Turkish American writer Inci Atrek and her debut novel.

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15 January, 2024 • Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman

“New Reasons”—a short story by Samira Azzam

In a translated tale from Palestine’s first lady of short stories, the newest technology exacts a toll on people ahead of their time.

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3 December, 2023 • MK Harb

“The Summer They Heard Music”—a short story by MK Harb

There are some long, languid and even dangerous summers that Beirutis can never forget, and this is one of them.

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3 December, 2023 • Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Lina Mounzer

“Of Wood and Hallucination”—fiction from Mansoura Ez-Eldin

After the war, a few scant survivors become one with the elements, and one takes to writing down thousands of words a day in an invented language.

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3 December, 2023 • Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Rana Asfour

“Twelve Angels”—fiction from Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

In this short story by Egyptian writer Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, translated from Arabic, a man contends with his mortality on his death bed.

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3 December, 2023 • Maryam Mahjoba, Zubair Popalzai

“Kabul’s Haikus”—fiction from Maryam Mahjoba

In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a girl's school.

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3 December, 2023 • Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh

“The Waiting Bones”—an essay by Maryam Haidari

As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its eight-year wake.

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