‘The Man I Wished Was My Father’: Short Fiction by Abeer Ahmed
The Man I Wished Was My Father By Abeer Ahmed Translated by Mohammed Alsaeed He was at the very center of the sitting room, and everyone around Him was struck […]
Fiction
Short Fiction: The Tragic Tale of Sudan’s Santa
The Tragic Tale of Sudan’s Santa By Hassan Aljizouli Translated by Lemya Shammat Since my earliest days, the image of Santa Claus has been inseparably tied to a story—simple, true, […]
New Short Fiction from Syria: ‘A Bird with a Broken Wing’
Editor’s note: This story — one of the finalists for the 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction Prize, co-run by ArabLit and Komet Kashakeel — is set to appear in a 2025 […]
Short Fiction by Ghassan al-Jibai: ‘Nails’
Author and dramatist Ghassan al-Jibai’s مسامير appeared in Arabic in Al-Araby al-Jadeed and on ArabLit in English translation in 2022, after the author’s death, in celebration of his ife and work. […]
From Omar Khalifah’s ‘Sand-Catcher’: Mutarjima’s Maqlouba
It’s publication day for Omar Khalifah’s fast-paced, satiric, & thrilling debut novel, Sand-Catcher, translated by Barbara Romaine. In this excerpt, one of the core characters, the journalist known only as […]
New Short Fiction by Ziad A. Mahafza: ‘This Body Isn’t Mine’
This Body isn’t Mine By Ziad A. Mahafza Translated by Adil Babikir When I woke up that night from a prolonged coma, it felt as if I were swimming in […]
Valentine’s Day, During the Time of the War on Gaza
By Eman Abdul Karim Mohammed Al-Natour Several days had passed, no worse and no better than the ones that had come before, and I was weaving with my daily steps […]
New Short Fiction: ‘The Blood of Angels’
The Blood of Angels By Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi Translated by the author A young astronomer stood gazing in awe at the mountain observatory. In front of Leila stood a massive […]
An Excerpt from Nawara Negm’s ‘You Have Been Blocked’
In You Have Been Blocked, the debut novel by popular writer Nawara Negm — daughter of towering literary figures Safinaz Kazem and Ahmed Fouad Negm — explores a collage of different […]