New Short Fiction: Ahmed Fouad Eldin’s ‘Leeway’
2023-05-29
” Baffled by each other’s proximity and propelled by the desire to brew our drink before the other, we both stretch out our hands, and then draw them back.”Continue Reading
From the RAIN Issue: Mohamed Makhzangi’s ‘The Water Cords’
2023-05-23
It will be a small miracle if you receive this letter of mine, which I’m writing on a day I skipped from our tour in the forest.Continue Reading
An Excerpt from the IPAF-winning Novel ‘The Exile of the Water Diviner’
2023-05-18
The Exile of the Water Diviner, by Omani author Zahran al-Qassimy, is on the shortlist for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, the winner of which is set to be announced May 21 in Abu Dhabi. This novel tells the story of a water diviner employed by the villages to track springs of water hidden deep in the earth. Continue Reading
New Short Fiction by Najwa Binshatwan: ‘Click Like’
2023-05-09
“Iman is afraid that she’s going to lose her job to AI. I pray to God that it will be like the rest of the inventions, which came to the Arab world only after they’d grown old in their own worlds.”Continue Reading
‘The Privatization of Da’bul’s Oil’: An Excerpt from ‘Shalash the Iraqi’
2023-05-02
“Umm Da’bul was a bit taken aback when she discovered one day that her youngest, a child of ten, was peeing oil.”Continue Reading
On the Anniversary of a Syrian Revolution, An Excerpt of Fadi Azzam’s ‘Huddud’s House’
2023-03-15
“The house turned into a beehive, its doors wide open to youth, activists, and intellectuals. Dialogue sessions were held in it to keep abreast of the events in Egypt, Tunis and Libya; and with the start of March, the relationship between Anis and Samia was at its peak”Continue Reading
A Conversation About Miral Altahawy’s IPAF-shortlisted ‘Days of the Shining Sun’
2023-03-14
” This is a godless world, even though Allah is mentioned all the time. The only possible heroism in the novel is that of survival in face of misery.”Continue Reading
An Excerpt from Azher Jirjees’s IPAF-shortlisted ‘The Stone of Happiness’
2023-02-27
And so it was that—after a lifetime spent as peaceable as a hen—I found myself face to face with a hired killer.Continue Reading
New Short Fiction: Alhassan Bakri’s ‘Field Marshal Trapped in a Bathroom’
2023-02-20
When the field marshal heard the roar coming through the north-facing window of the spacious restroom, he was taken aback.Continue Reading
