New: An Excerpt of Mohammed Said Hjiouij’s ‘Kafka in Tangier’
“Nevertheless, he knew that his fate would be no different from that of young Samsa: he would die in three months, no more and no less, just before his twenty-seventh birthday.”
Phoebe Bay Carter
‘If I Were a Cat’: Rasha Omran’s Poetry in Three Languages
“If I were a cat / I would was my skin with my tongue / like this / your scent passing from my skin to my mouth, so I’d think I’d devoured you”
ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.
Islam Nawwar’s ‘Don’t Say that My Son Is Walking in Heaven’
“And I’m still surprised by the highly specific classification of my identity / On my ID card, where they wrote: / Male, Muslim, single.”
On The Zoom Launch of Noor Naga’s ‘Washes, Prays,’ With ‘All the Weirdness’ Left In
Naga said that, if she could have simply called it a novel, she would have. But once you start calling something fiction, “editors tend to get very restrictive and edit all the weirdness out.”