In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and...
5 JULY 2024 • By Qais Akbar Omar
Omani writer Hamoud Saud’s short story “A Blind Window on Childhood” translated from Arabic by Zia Ahmed, reveals...
5 JULY 2024 • By Hamoud Saud
In a stream of consciousness short story by Odai Al Zoubi, a minister under investigation in the Syrian...
5 JULY 2024 • By Odai Al Zoubi
In Natasha Tynes’ new short story, “The Lakshmi of Suburbia,” an unhappy wife falls in love with herself...
5 JULY 2024 • By Natasha Tynes
In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a...
5 JULY 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
The more things change, the more they become strange, or so finds the confused narrator of this Kafkaesque...
5 JULY 2024 • By Mohamed Farag
Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under...
5 JULY 2024 • By Diaa Jubaili
In this latest story by Nora Nagi, an Egyptian woman trapped in a loveless marriage far from home...
5 JULY 2024 • By Nora Nagi
In exercises to “release your inner child,” meditation, or psychotherapy, Beirutis search for mental and physical relief, in...
5 JULY 2024 • By MK Harb
Salah Badis' short story follows an elderly Algerian woman contemplating the end of her life amidst the threat...
5 JULY 2024 • By Salah Badis
In this flash fiction by Abdullah Nasser, a couple struggling to conceive undergoes a transformation that changes everything.
5 JULY 2024 • By Abdullah Nasser
An excerpt from Omani writer Huda Hamed’s bittersweet coming-of-age novel about race and self in a new English...
5 JULY 2024 • By Huda Hamed
