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Why Summer Fiction? For the Wonders & Miracles – Malu Halasa<\/p>\n
Deena Mohamed – The Featured artist<\/p>\n
The Top 12 Books to Read This Summer – Rana Asfour<\/p>\n
Dune in 2024: A World Beyond Saving – Ahmed Naji<\/p>\n
“The Social Media Kids”\u2014a short story by Qais Akbar Omar<\/p>\n
Flaubert\u2019s Poison Pen – Tarek Abi Samra<\/p>\n
“An Inherited Offense”\u2014a Levantine story on the island of Leros – Nektaria Anastasiadou<\/p>\n
The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami – Poupeh Missaghi<\/p>\n
“A Blind Window on Childhood”\u2014a short story by Hamoud Saud<\/p>\n
“Ten-Armed Gods”\u2014a short story by Odai Al Zoubi<\/p>\n
“The Lakshmi of Suburbia”\u2014a story by Natasha Tynes<\/p>\n
“Firefly”\u2014a short story by Alireza Iranmehr<\/p>\n
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“The Cockroaches”\u2014flash fiction – Stanko Uyi Sr\u0161en<\/p>\n
“Keeping Up”\u2014fiction from Mohamed Farag<\/p>\n
Victoria\u2014An Excerpt – Karoline Kamel<\/p>\n
“The Doll with the Purple Scarf”\u2014flash fiction from Diaa Jubaili<\/p>\n
The Butcher\u2019s Assistant\u2014a true story set in Alexandria – Bel Parker<\/p>\n
“Certainty”\u2014a short story by Nora Nagi<\/p>\n
“We Danced”\u2014a story by MK Harb<\/p>\n
“The Mulberry Tree”\u2014an excerpt from Altercation in Jahannam – Mohammed Alnaas<\/p>\n
“Madame Djouzi”\u2014a story by Salah Badis<\/p>\n
“Frida Kahlo\u2019s Mustache”\u2014flash fiction from Abdullah Nasser<\/p>\n
“Deferred Sorrow”\u2014fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali<\/p>\n
“Besara”\u2014an excerpt from Things Are Not in Their Place – Huda Hamed<\/p>\n
Ripped from Memoirs of a Lebanese Policeman – Fawzi Zabyan<\/p>\n
Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women\u2019s Protest in Iran – Katie Logan<\/p>\n
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TMR Issue 43 \u2013 26 articles \u2013\u00a0 303 pages<\/p>\n
Every summer TMR publishes a big double fiction issue, along with a recommended summer reading list. In this issue, several stories are new translations from Arabic, Persian, and Greek, from such writers as Huda Hamed, Nora Nagi, Odai Al Zoubi, Alireza Iranmehr and Nektaria Anastasiadou. There are also personal essays and reviews, plus an interview with featured artist Deena Mohamed.\u00a0Reading is for all and any time of the year \u2014 not just for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33819,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3209],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33818","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tmr-issues","7":"entry","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"downloadable","12":"virtual","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n