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Anna Christina Olson
My father once told me when I was young, that he could judge a man on three things:…
The Palm’s Poem
Ali always tried avoiding work whenever possible. He despised waking up early, putting on work clothes, spending hours…
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…
Avec Toi
“The reader is even given a seat beside Taha’s deathbed.” The one thing about Taha Hussein that has…
Inspiration to Live by
An interview with the author of Casting Off the Veil, Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi “It was difficult to try…
Welcome to the Military
Jonathan took an interrupted deep breath that consumed all the energy he had, and stepped into the dreaded…
Venus: The Final Battle
It was a moonless night, yet the darkness failed to prevail. The scene was obscene in an un-vulgar…
Beneath the Sidewalk
Peering out from beneath her tinted shades, Sarah squinted into the blinding sunlight reflected by the screen of…
A Café in Downtown Cairo
Overbearing heat, crowded streets, and a bureaucratic circus…these are normal days in downtown Cairo. My wife and I…
On the Street of Dawnless Gray
I “Kiss me.” II I never imagined it would get to this. With her, I transcended the physical…