The collection, edited by Basma Ghalayini, promises to feature stories from a range of writers, including: Talal Abu Shawish, Awad Saud Awad, Liana Badr, Ramzy Baroud, Selma Dabbagh, Samir El-Youssef, Anwar Hamed, Mazen Maarouf, Ahmed Masoud, Nayrouz Qarmout, and Rawan Yaghi.
December 18 is “UN Arabic Language Day.”
BIRDS
have no hands.
They don’t expect a crutch
in old age
You will also ‘feel’ the beauty of Aleppo before the war, and the sorrow of what happened to it during the conflict.
“For narrative is a feminine land, and it is a forest . . . hidden behind the likely and the possible.”
Unlike most travel literature, al-Khamis’s “Voyage of the Cranes over the Agate Cities”: “focuses on the role of women in this age: as scholar, scientist, and imam of a mosque.”
The winner will take 750,000 dirhams, or around $204,000 US.
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According to the judges, the ‘No Windmills in Basra’ combined realism and fantasy in its often satiric depictions of war that includes stories set during “the Iraq-Iran war, the Gulf War, and the waves of extremism that engulf Iraq to this day.”
