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Tag: marriage

31 July, 2023 • Antony Loewenstein

Off to War—A Marriage on the Brink

Antony Loewenstein reviews the latest book from veteran war reporter Anjan Sundaram, whose work may have cost him his marriage.

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2 July, 2023 • Natasha Tynes

“The Agency”—a story by Natasha Tynes

A shrewd businesswoman runs a matchmaking agency in Amman that finds brides for male clients based on a virginity scale.

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2 July, 2023 • Ola Mustapha

We Saw Paris, Texas—a story by Ola Mustapha

In Ola Mustapha's new story, a man falls for the seduction of a film and it becomes the blueprint for love, life, and even death.

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15 March, 2022 • Malika Moustadraf

Fiction: “A Day in the Life of a Married Man”

A tale of conjugal love from the first complete story collection in English by Moroccan writer and cult feminist Malika Moustadraf, translated by Alice Guthrie.

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21 February, 2022 • Hanan Fathi, Essam M. Al-Jassim

Flash Fiction: “A Wife’s Diary”

In this flash fiction translated from Arabic, a woman poet finds herself at first thwarted by her possessive husband, then overshadowed when he decides to compete with her.

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14 February, 2022 • Fadi Zaghmout, Rana Asfour

Fadi Zaghmout’s banned-in-Jordan “Laila”: a TMR Valentine

In this excerpt of the banned Jordanian novel "Laila," introduced by Rana Asfour and translated by Hajer Almosleh, readers get a sense of Fadi Zaghmout's prose and purpose.

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