Like a classic noir narrative in which morality blurs and truth is slippery, the world today feels increasingly absurd and nihilistic.
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When religious fanatics in Lebanon aren’t fighting one another, they make the best war comrades against modernity, secularism, and freedom of expression.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Ammiel Alcalay writes of the gatekeepers who have affected every aspect of his writing, cultural, and public life.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor services.
06 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By Ali Ramthan Hussein, Essam M. Al-Jassim
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
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
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
