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Home / 3 – Slender Thorns: Award-winning Flash Fiction in English and Arabic (EBOOK)
3 - Slender Thorns: Award-winning Flash Fiction in English and Arabic (EBOOK)

3 – Slender Thorns: Award-winning Flash Fiction in English and Arabic (EBOOK)

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This is a collection of fifteen short stories in Arabic and English, by the finalists of our 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction prize, as well as excerpts from interviews with the authors. The finalists are:

Azza Abdulnawar’s “The Days of Nasi’” (أيام النسىء)

Ahmed Abo-Amer’s “Obituary Broadcast” (إذاعة نعي)

Karima Ahdad’s “A Slender Thorn Digs into My Foot” (شوكةٌ رفيعة تحفر عميقاً في قدمي)

Haidara Nabeel Assad’s “The Boy on the Bus with Gooseflesh” (فتى الحافلة ذو القشعريرة)

Hamza Dhahbi’s “Desires That Result Only in Pain” (رغبات لا ينتج عنها الا الألم)

Laila Hashemi’s “Second-hand Life” (حياة مستعملة)

Mahmoud Hosny’s “Here’s the Pulse in My Neck, Ismail” (ها هو نبض عنقي، يا إسماعيل)

Loqman Hussain’s “He Said: I’ll Kill You” (قال: «لأقتلنَّك»)

Yassin Mahmod’s “Circles Open on All Four Sides” (دوائر مفتوحة من الجهات الأربع)

Nasser Rabah’s “Seedlings for the Dead” (شتلات الموتى)

Imad Saad’s “Bird with a Broken Wing” (طائر بجناح مكسور)

Doha Salah’s “Mercy Killing!” (!قتلٌ رحيم)

Ahmed Abdelaty Hafni al-Samman’s “House of Righteous Women” (بيت السيدات الصالحات)

Bassma Shaikho’s “Typo” (خطأ مطبعيّ)

Basem Suleiman’s “Zorba’s Dance” (رقصة زوربا)

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In 2024, our three judges — Mansoura Ez Eldin, Sarah Enany, and Shahla Ujayli — chose fifteen flash-fiction finalists from a pool of more than 900 stories submitted in Arabic from around the world.

The selected short-short fictions, all 1,001 words or fewer, are from Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and beyond.

In this collection, we bring together the fifteen finalists, with a few quotes from our conversations with the writers. The idea is both to place these short-short fictions in conversation with each other, and also to carry these diverse writers’ craft into another language: English. We have also translated the three winning stories into a new format, as audio performances in Arabic and English, available online.

We hope that readers of this bilingual collection will discover a new writer they admire, a new literary technique they can borrow for their own writing, a new idea for their practice of translation. And, most of all, that they find short stories to read and re-read, to become part of their own interior landscape.

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