From Zainab Hifni’s ‘I Was Here Yesterday’
'I Was Here Yesterday; is set between Saudi Arabia and the Florida coast and entangles grief and memory, centering on how the narrator grapples with her mother’s death and the truths about her mother’s life—and her own—that she uncovers ...
Short Fiction from Syria: ‘The Blacklist’
Haseeb Al-Zainy's "The Blacklist" appears in the new anthology The Book of Damascus: A City in Short Fiction, out this month from Comma Press. ...
Classic Short Fiction: ‘A Criminal Against His Will’
"It was five o'clock in the morning. The station, faintly illuminated by dim lamps, lay beneath a murky canopy of locomotive smoke. Qasim stood beside the steps of one of the coaches, gazing at the station clock." ...
World Cup Lit: From ‘Hot Maroc’
This excerpt appeared in the FOOTBALL issue of ArabLit Quarterly, which you can still get in print and digital. ...
World Cup Short Fiction: Adania Shibli’s ‘A Tin Ball’
This week, we're celebrating the World Cup with work from our Fall 2021 FOOTBALL issue ...
Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Free’
In this excerpt from Sahar Khalifeh's ‘A Novel for My Story,’ by turns playful and serious, the novelist describes the moment she freed herself from her marriage and other people's expectations of what her life could be ...
Classic Short Fiction by Ali Al-Douagi
"Ah, how immense my delight when I saw the moving cart piled high with carpets, lamps, and sacks of every size and color!" ...
From Kawther Al-Jahmi’s ‘A Son of the Country’
The novel poses a question about identity: Is it a piece of paper, or a sense of belonging? ...
‘He Dies for As Long As Possible’
This short piece appeared, in a slightly different form, in the SONG issue of ArabLit Quarterly in the Spring of 2021 ...
‘The Desert Also Keened’
Ibrahim al-Koni's "The Desert Also Keened" was the winner of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize in Dima El Mouallem's translation. ...
