Fifi Bat-hef

My Neighbor By Ali Al-Douagi Translated by Amr El-Zawawy (7)

Interviews Comma Press, Fifi Bat-hef, The Book of Damascus, Zaher Omareen

On Shaping ‘The Book of Damascus’

September 7, 2026

The Book of Damascus, ed. Zaher Omareen, is a new anthology in their “Reading the City” series. Here, editor Zaher Omareen talks with Fifi Bat-hef about selecting ten stories to represent a city as complex and storied as Damascus.

Reviews Fifi Bat-hef, Palestine -1

A Single, Slow Exorcism: The Nakba Dreamed Backwards

December 4, 2025

From the very first lines of her introduction, editor Basma Ghalayani thrusts us right into a hurried, pulsing Gaza. A passerby asks a Gazan sprinting down the street if something has happened. He answers, “no, but it might.”