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 […]
Fiction
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 […]
‘Mercy Killing’: Very Short Fiction by Fadi Azzam
Mercy Killing By Fadi Azzam Translated by Ghada Alatrash She tied his hands and feet, fixed his head between two wooden supports, sealed his mouth with tape, and pinched his […]
An Excerpt of Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s ‘No One Knows Their Blood Type’
What follows is an excerpt from Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s extraordinary No One Knows Their Blood Type, out now in Hazem Jamjoum’s excellent translation from CSU Poetry Center. You can read […]
New Short Fiction: Fadi Azzam’s ‘The Pussy’
Fadi Azzam’s haunting novel Huddud’s House came out this spring from Interlink Books in Ghada Alatrash’s translation. In this new short story, composed this summer, Azzam tells of a dog […]
From Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s ‘Samahani’
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out this week from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast […]
New Short Fiction from Sudan: Rania Mamoun’s ‘Black & White’
Black & White By Rania Mamoun Translated by Nassir A-Sayeid Al-Nour I stepped into my room. I found a young man, tensed and searching for something. He looked inside drawers, […]
An Excerpt from Jokha Alharthi’s Latest, ‘Silken Gazelles’
Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies (tr. Marilyn Booth) was an instant sensation when it became is the first book translated from Arabic — and still the only book translated from Arabic […]