The great twentieth-century poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on this day in 1941. Today, author-translator Alaa Alqaisi shares a letter to Darwish and a poem, after Darwish’s “In Praise of the High Shadow.”
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.
“Do words and laughter melt, the way images melt in memory?” Short fiction about life and death by Sudanese author Mona Mohamed Saleh.
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.
These two poems, from Mohamed N.M. Ali latest collection, “نداء السكون” (The Call of Stillness), search for a self and selfhood “in the evening of oblivion.”
Here, Syrian poet Anas al-Ghouri reflects back on “wish-filled pockets” and the shoes that would reclaim childhood from want.
FEBRUARY 4, 2025 — Prolific Iraqi novelist Mahmoud Saeed, who moved to Chicago in 1999 but continued to write about Iraq throughout his life, often boldly, died last week after […]
Rawaa Sonbol is a Syrian author of short fiction, theater, and children’s literature. She has published three short story collections: The Tongue Hunter (2017), which received the Sharjah Award for […]
Grief, a Wolf, December 31, 2024, by Olivia Elias, translated from French by Jérémy Victor Robert * in these barbaric times….I live like a sick person forced to save […]
