Four stories from Muhammad al-Hajj's Nobody Mourns the City's Cats are available free on ArabLit until the end of this month.
Muhammad El-Hajj’s ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
“You’re going to leave, and I won’t have anyone to cry or go hysterical with,” I said after we’d caught our breath.
Protected: Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘Tones’
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Protected: Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘Better Ways’
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Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘An Eye for an Eye’
I could see that she had been crying. Was it the first time, maybe? No, she had cried at our wedding. But who wouldn't cry on their wedding day, anyway? Well, Huda, maybe.
Extend Your Summer with the New ArabLit Quarterly: The Sea
Includes the perfect hot-and-sweet late-summer story from Muhammad al-Hajj, in pitch-perfect translation by Yasmine Zohdi.