‘Can We Get in Touch with You?’ Short Fiction by Mai Al-Maghribi
In this short fiction by Mai Al-Maghribi, the narrator has dreams of art but doesn’t have the connections and gets dragged into an uncle’s tannery business.
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New Short Fiction: ‘A Funeral of Butterflies’
“Do words and laughter melt, the way images melt in memory?” Short fiction about life and death by Sudanese author Mona Mohamed Saleh.
New Short Fiction: ‘Evil in My Bag’
In Aya Chalabee’s “Evil in My Bag,” a girl comes of age while Iraq is under US occupation and has to contend with a changing landscape, a strange soldier, and a gigantic crow.
Three Novels on 2025 Sheikh Zayed Shortlist
Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award today announced their 2025 shortlists in seven categories; this year, each was just a short three-book list.
Nasser Rabah’s ‘I Was Sand’
“I Was Sand” is set to appear in Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, which is forthcoming from City Lights next month.
Publication Day for ‘Slender Thorns’
It’s Publication Day for our new short-story anthology, Slender Thorns: Award-winning Flash Fiction in Arabic and English.
Three Short Stories by Omar Hammash
Today, we share three short-short stories from Gaza, by author Omar Hammash.
Pierre Joris (1946-2025): Seven Minutes on Translation
The prolific poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist Pierre Joris died today after a long battle with cancer. Back in 2011, he wrote us these “Seven Minutes on Translation.”
Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘Do You Hear Me? What Now?’
This poem, by the acclaimed Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah, was originally published in al-Quds. It asks, relentlessly, refusing to cede the present: “What now?”