Captured in the Twilight Wood, Faris and Farah go on a page-turning adventure while taking part in a long-awaited uprising against evil.
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“Will they shoot again?” the little girl asks her mother.
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” I spat out all the womb’s waters that were stagnant within my chest, and then waited for their despair.”
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“And oh, he was so ready to see the look on his uncle’s face once he realized his magic wand had betrayed him.”
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“I walk up “the bridge,” which is the name I’ve given to the entrance hall in my uncle’s home, because it’s higher than the other rooms.”
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“Perhaps what attracts you in the beginning is what repels you at the end.”
Read moreRead Mustafa Taj Alden Almosa’s ArabLit Story Prize-winning ‘How Kind They Are,’ Tr. Maissa Tanjour & Alice Holttum
“They arrested me yesterday evening. The patrol head greeted me in his own way, and I was very surprised: instead of shaking my hand, he warmly shook my face with his fist, causing one of my teeth to fly from my mouth and land on the street.”
Read more#TranslateThis: Haya Saleh’s YA Novel ‘Wild Poppies’
“The whole place was covered in rubble, and the rubble filled up my heart.”
Read moreNew Fiction: An Excerpt from Abeer Esber’s ‘Free Fall’
“So here I am now, Yasmina, my mother’s daughter, returning home just as she did — after years that flowed like a mighty river between the two returns.”
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