In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Qais Akbar Omar
In this flash fiction by Abdullah Nasser, a couple struggling to conceive undergoes a transformation that changes everything.
JULY 5, 2024 • By Abdullah Nasser
Lina Mounzer reviews the new book by Anna Lekas Miller that gathers stories of love- and border-challenged couples.
FEBRUARY 4, 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
A short story by Jordanian writer Fadi Zaghout in which a traditional Jordanian "Jaha" ceremony takes place in...
DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Fadi Zaghmout
Antony Loewenstein reviews the latest book from veteran war reporter Anjan Sundaram, whose work may have cost him...
JULY 31, 2023 • By Antony Loewenstein
A shrewd businesswoman runs a matchmaking agency in Amman that finds brides for male clients based on a...
JULY 2, 2023 • By Natasha Tynes
In Ola Mustapha's new story, a man falls for the seduction of a film and it becomes the...
JULY 2, 2023 • By Ola Mustapha
A tale of conjugal love from the first complete story collection in English by Moroccan writer and cult...
MARCH 15, 2022 • By Malika Moustadraf
In this flash fiction translated from Arabic, a woman poet finds herself at first thwarted by her possessive...
FEBRUARY 21, 2022 • By Mbarek Sryfi
In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh,...
FEBRUARY 14, 2022 • By Viet Thanh Nguyen
