Fiction from the Magazine: Raghad Qasim’s ‘Hair or No Hair’
“The no-hair phenomenon certainly has a backstory. “
From ArabLit Quarterly
‘Arsène Lupin,’ a Short Story by Sonallah Ibrahim
“His mouth discharged a second snort. I worried he might attack me, or tear me apart, but he settled his body back into the chair and sighed. “
‘THE KITCHEN’ Issue: Food Fictions and Poetry, Family Histories, Table Manners & More
The Summer 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly is available in print and digital formats.
Publication Day for ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2021 Issue: SONG
The Spring 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly — with voices moist and cricketlike, stirring and gritty, ploverlike and tremulous — is available today in print and e-form.
New Fiction in Translation: ‘The Illusion of Sea’
“The place was choking, and it will always be.”
New Short Fiction: ‘Our Offering,’ by Amgad ElSabban
“Magdy’s gaze fell by accident on a tiny ad written in fine print in the bottom corner of one of the pages of a local newspaper.”
In Translation: Ameer Hamad’s ‘The Wooden Castle’
I don’t know when exactly the idea came to me: of building a castle like the ones I’d imagined when reading stories, or like the ones I’d seen in cartoons.
New Fiction in Translation: Layla Baalbaki’s ‘The Cat’
“Now, it was the beginning of summer.”
Abdallah Zrika’s ‘Funeral of the Snow Grenade’
“A dead language in the throat of a dead poet. Assassins only wait for the day of the feast. Cemeteries are only full of white beds.”