Fiction The Long Way – Excerpt from Guapa / Saleem Haddad The memory returns to me so vividly I feel I am back there, at 14, in the backseat of that taxi. At the time... أكمل القراءة
Fiction Rabaa / Alexander Jabbari “Created sick, commanded to be sound” (Fulke Greville, Mustapha, 1609) I. I often exaggerate, in my imagination, the relationship between feelings and the body.... أكمل القراءة
Fiction My Voice / Remah Jabr I yelled at her unconsciously. I was not aware that I had broken a rule. It was the first time in my life that... أكمل القراءة
Fiction My Name is Jbene “Jbene” is a story from the Palestinian Folklore. It is one of many collected and edited by Ibrahim Mohawi and Sharif Kanaana in their... أكمل القراءة
Fiction A Jew abandoned in Baghdad / Mati Shemoelof This Salah, has to be late on the one day when I didn’t take my cell phone, and this crumbling café doesn’t have a... أكمل القراءة
Fiction Proust’s Madeleines and my Grandmother’s Couscous / Or Tshuva Like many other Arab Jews, I tried to ‘Ashkenize’ myself. I used to long for my grandmother’s couscous, which we ate every Friday, but... أكمل القراءة
Fiction Sackcloth “Sackcloth” is a story from the Palestinian Folklore. It is one of many collected and edited by Ibrahim Mohawi and Sharif Kanaana in their... أكمل القراءة
Fiction Fetters of the Dead / Zakaria Tamer The story is told of a man who loved a woman, but she refused to marry him. “How can you refuse to marry me,”... أكمل القراءة
Fiction The Prisoner / Remah Jabr “The Prisoner” is based on two monologues: the first is narrated by the prisoner himself and the second by his girlfriend. First performed in... أكمل القراءة
Fiction Napoleon’s Infancy / Jamal Juma Once I had paper I did not know how to use. I covered it with blue sadness. Once I had fingers pointing to all,... أكمل القراءة
