The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Omani writer Hamoud Saud’s short story “A Blind Window on Childhood” translated from Arabic by Zia Ahmed, reveals...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Hamoud Saud
In a stream of consciousness short story by Odai Al Zoubi, a minister under investigation in the Syrian...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Odai Al Zoubi
In Natasha Tynes’ new short story, “The Lakshmi of Suburbia,” an unhappy wife falls in love with herself...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Natasha Tynes
In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
The more things change, the more they become strange, or so finds the confused narrator of this Kafkaesque...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Mohamed Farag
Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Diaa Jubaili
While studying abroad in Alexandria, Bel Parker becomes a butcher's apprentice to immerse herself in the local language...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Bel Parker
In this latest story by Nora Nagi, an Egyptian woman trapped in a loveless marriage far from home...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Nora Nagi
In exercises to “release your inner child,” meditation, or psychotherapy, Beirutis search for mental and physical relief, in...
JULY 5, 2024 • By MK Harb