Sabine Jimenez-Williams

Short Fiction in Translation: Azher Jirjees’s ‘The Reed Horse’

July 14, 2025

The Arabic original of this short story appears in the 2017 edition of Azher Jirjees’s collection The Sweetmaker.

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