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