From the RAIN Issue: Mohamed Makhzangi’s ‘The Water Cords’
It will be a small miracle if you receive this letter of mine, which I’m writing on a day I skipped from our tour in the forest.
Mohamed Makhzangi
Lit & Found: Mohamed Makhzangi’s ‘Foal’
“Trembling, the small foal scurried between his mother’s legs when the sound of explosions struck his ears and the lightning flash of bombs glimmered in his eyes.”
Chip Rossetti on How Mohamed Makhzangi’s ‘Animals In Our Days’ Displaces our Anthropocentric View of the World
“It’s a jarring, estranging view of our species, one that particularly suited to the genre of ecofiction: one of its hallmarks is that it aims to question or displace a traditional anthropocentric view of the world.”
Coming in June: Historical Fiction & Animal Stories
Coming in June, three new books in translation by Egyptian authors.