“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.
Joumana Haddad's short story delves into a woman's lifelong journey of navigating her relationship with the hijab.
With tarot cards and a recipe for pickled turnips, Beirutis bid farewell to yet another friend leaving on a “talent passport” to somewhere else.
Bonfire of the vanities: A second-rate artist imagines the prophets and the grand, holy tales of monotheism.
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.
When Mehreen and Asma compare notes, they realize they are still not unfettered lovers.
Amy Omar explores her own Turkish American identity while relating to Turkish American writer Inci Atrek and her debut novel.
In a translated tale from Palestine’s first lady of short stories, the newest technology exacts a toll on people ahead of their time.
There are some long, languid and even dangerous summers that Beirutis can never forget, and this is one of them.
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.
In this short story by Egyptian writer Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, translated from Arabic, a man contends with his mortality on his death bed.
In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a girl's school.
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its eight-year wake.