“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.
Faris Lounis
Born in Jijel, Algeria, in 1992, Faris Lounis graduated in linguistics from the University of Paris XIII and in political philosophy from the University of Paris VIII, and has been living in France since 2018. A journalist and writer since 2020, he writes for several Algerian and French magazines and dailies, including El Watan, Le Matin d’Algérie, Orient XXI and ActuaLitté.
Jordan Elgrably is an American, French and Moroccan writer and translator whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many anthologies and reviews, including Apulée, Salmagundi, and the Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). He is the editor of Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights, 2024), and co-editor with Malu Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories, 2025), Based in Montpellier, France and California, he tweets @JordanElgrably.