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Category: TMR 22 • STORIES

15 June, 2022 • Lisa Teasley

Lisa Teasley: “Death is Beautiful”

Should we be happy we're finite? Lisa Teasley weaves a tale merging art, transhumanists and artificial intelligence.

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15 June, 2022 • Bakytiyar Ali

Bakhtiyar Ali: “The Prisoner and the Plague”

From one of the most prominent contemporary authors and poets from Iraqi Kurdistan comes an unforgettable tale of oppression, and freedom.

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15 June, 2022 • Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”

A short story of international love from the author of the Gaza novel "Out of It."

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15 June, 2022 • Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh

Alireza Iranmehr: “Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”

One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.

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15 June, 2022 • Sarah AlKahly-Mills

Sarah Kahly-Mills: “The Salamander”

In this magical tale set in Lebanon and on a mysterious Mediterranean island, people dream of escape while a biologist seeks an elusive salamander.

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15 June, 2022 • Karim Kattan

Karim Kattan: “The Gravedigger”

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

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15 June, 2022 • Hawra Al-Nadawi, Alice Guthrie

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 and Iran.

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15 June, 2022 • Hisham Bustani

Hisham Bustani: “Intellectuals”

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

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15 June, 2022 • Amany Kamal Eldin

Amany Kamal Eldin: “The Suffering Mother of the Whole World”

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

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