Two Poems by Al-Dawy Mohammed Al-Dawy
“Many years ago / I swallowed a butterfly while I was singing.”
Enas El-Torky
Short Fiction: ‘Living in Songs’
“My dad woke me up at dawn, asking if I’d done anything stupid. He repeated his question as if he were addressing me from another world, about the nature of the calamity I had caused.”
Sherin Younis on Motherhood, Dreams, and ‘A Fish in Search of Its Limbs’
“Nobody has the power to impose a limit on the madness of dreams and their ideas, and consequently nobody can judge you for that.”
Lock-in Lit Series: ‘The Big Battle of Mohandiseen’
“But after Ramadan, everything is permissible!”
Shortlist for 2019 ArabLit Story Prize
After a good deal of debate, the judges of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize settled on a four-story shortlist, with works by Mahmoud Hosny, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Mohamed Al-Ashry, and Samar Nour.