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In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his whereabouts.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh
In the Libyan village “Hell,” temperatures soar to unimaginable heights, and war breaks out over a parking space in the shade of a tree.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Mohammed Alnaas, Rana Asfour
We present the first chapter of Karoline Kamel’s debut novel in a new translation in English by Ranya Abdelrahman.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Karoline Kamel, Ranya Abdelrahman
Travel through the center of the world this summer from the comfort of your couch when you pick up any of these wonderful books.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Rana Asfour
Our literary editor takes us on a deluxe reader's tour of the stories behind the stories in the double summer fiction issue for 2024.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
In Qais Akbar Omar’s short story, a surprise homecoming threatens to upend the lives of a 14-year-old and her independent mother in Kabul.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Qais Akbar Omar
The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash as a survivor of state horror.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Omani writer Hamoud Saud’s short story “A Blind Window on Childhood” translated from Arabic by Zia Ahmed, reveals a family's secret history.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Hamoud Saud, Zia Ahmed
In a stream of consciousness short story by Odai Al Zoubi, a minister under investigation in the Syrian government awaits his fate.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Odai Al Zoubi, Ziad Dallal
In the violence of the Gaza war, a love that dares not speak its name blossoms at a hefty price in flash fiction by Stanko Uyi Sršen.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
While studying abroad in Alexandria, Bel Parker becomes a butcher's apprentice to immerse herself in the local language and culture.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Bel Parker
In this latest story by Nora Nagi, an Egyptian woman trapped in a loveless marriage far from home finds freedom.
05 JULY, 2024 • By Nora Nagi, Nada Faris
