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Venus: The Final Battle
It was a moonless night, yet the darkness failed to prevail. The scene was obscene in an un-vulgar…
Welcome to the Military
Jonathan took an interrupted deep breath that consumed all the energy he had, and stepped into the dreaded…
Inspiration to Live by
An interview with the author of Casting Off the Veil, Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi “It was difficult to try…
Avec Toi
“The reader is even given a seat beside Taha’s deathbed.” The one thing about Taha Hussein that has…
El-Kateb El-Masry: Taha Hussein’s Literary Journal
Post World War II, the world was grieving and appalled at the amount of violence and death that…
The Palm’s Poem
Ali always tried avoiding work whenever possible. He despised waking up early, putting on work clothes, spending hours…
Anna Christina Olson
My father once told me when I was young, that he could judge a man on three things:…
An Excerpt From Robin Yassin-Kassab’s Upcoming Novel
“Something unsettled in the atmosphere pronounces a moment arriving.” An Excerpt from the Syrian Revolution novel She paces…
Turning the Pages of No Knives in This City’s Kitchens
An Interview with award-winning Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa Interview by Alaa Elbannan with photography by Nikolay Merchev Profound,…
She Told Me
“The mysterious queen was wrapped in myths woven by her enemies.” The goddess, the mother goddess, the productive…