Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari
An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result of war and political oppression.
An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result of war and political oppression.
This bleak and hyper real short story by Hassan Blasim is reminiscent of Ghassan Kanafani's novella "Men in the Sun."
When the society surrounding them begins to break down, a Beiruti family's troubles echo the macrocosm.
A Greek fisherman has to turn the corner on his lifelong passion, freeing himself from his past.
A family mysteriously disintegrates while violence permeates the valley in which they reside.
Farah Ahamed finds in the unsung working class Anarkali a heroine for the ages.
In too many places around the world, the public space still belongs to men, and women often find themselves having to navigate their space.
In May Haddad's short story, Carna’ is a spacefaring mail carrier fed up with working for the Universal Courier Service who journeys to the edge of the universe.
In this excerpt from a chapter in his latest novel in French, Abdellah Taïa pays homage to his mother, his favorite heroine.
Egyptian writer Ahmed Awny divigates between fiction and reality in this decentering short story.
Shada Mustafa, author of the novel "Things I Left Behind," negotiates Berlin from a recent immigrant's vantage point.
An Egyptian refugee in Berlin, longing for a home of his own, hopes love is around the corner.