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TMR 43 • Summer Fiction ’24

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 • Bel Parker

The Butcher’s Assistant—a true story set in Alexandria

While studying abroad in Alexandria, Bel Parker becomes a butcher's apprentice to immerse herself in the local language and culture.

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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 • 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 • 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 • 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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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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5 July, 2024 • Fawzi Zabyan

Ripped from Memoirs of a Lebanese Policeman

True reflections of a former officer of the law in Lebanon from his hit memoir, translated by Lina Mounzer.

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5 July, 2024 • Katie Logan

Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with only one voice.

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