New Fiction by Ameer Hamad: ‘All That’s Left to Him’
“There, an angel revealed itself, taking the shape of an image he’d seen in a storybook, when he was younger, back when his mother read him stories about angels.”Continue Reading
“There, an angel revealed itself, taking the shape of an image he’d seen in a storybook, when he was younger, back when his mother read him stories about angels.”Continue Reading
Join live or via Facebook for this book launch of Palestinian writer and ALQ contributor Ameer Hamad’s first short story collection “Gigi and Ali’s Rabit.”Continue Reading
“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”Continue Reading
“These two poems translated by Katharine Halls are small enough to carry in one’s palm; they utilise a mode of poetic witness attuned to distillation, frankness, and the startling force of an ending.”Continue Reading
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.Continue Reading
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.” Continue Reading
“Bella felt she had several cats at once, and that the spirit of her cat was being continually rejuvenated, such that she could never guess what her cat would do next.”Continue Reading
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.Continue Reading
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