What happens on New Year’s Eve when a conservative (and naive) father comes to his son’s front door, in Cairo, and hears something he never expected? A holiday classic from Egyptian writer Ibrahim Abdelkader Al-Mazni (1889–1949).
New short fiction by the relentlessly creative Palestinian writer Nasser Rabah.
A classic short story by Palestinian writer Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani in which wealthy men in Amman tell a Palestinian waiter he should be happy.
“Even language began to fade. The family forgot the words for their old routines and couldn’t replace them with new ones fast enough.”
Palestinian short-story writer, publisher and translator Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani (1914-1974) writes about love, loyalty, and gender expectations in the early twentieth century.
This is the story of Zafaran, a young man trying to escape the labels slapped on Sabeans, who leaves Baghdad hoping to find freedom in a small village. Yet, as soon as he arrives, he is recognized as the “Sabean,” and his life takes a new turn, such that he not only faces the myths about Sabeans but the village’s inner darkness.
This sharply satirical short story, published in Sidqi’s 1962 short-story collection of the same name, is a satire that follows the story of a real-life fellow Arab Communist from Haifa who returned from Russia and got rich profiteering off a war-relief charity.
A classic office farce from Al-Sahhar’s collection “Being a Civil Servant,” published in 1944.
This is part of a longer story, “Maryam,” (2022) by Palestinian author Saga Hamdan.
