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A Precious Catch & Others
A Precious Catch In the stretch of my life I only caught a solitary sardine,From a little countryside…
By Ear
“Just imagine it’s a camera and point it towards everything you see or hear. Be gentle.” Translated by…
The Drowned, A Slaughtered Chicken a Few Minutes Before Death, Quiet and Numerous, Did You Know?
Did You Know? The corners That people could have hid in Disappeared After God created the Earth A…
My Beloved Dog, My Old Dog
“That little freak would pierce my ears with his voice.” Translated by Iman Mersal and Tarek Sherif The…
I Don’t Love This City
The sky was like an enormous table, spread with the fruit of the great god Ra: the reddest…
Get Adapted
With Egypt’s reigning queen of scriptwriting: Mariam Na‘oum Daring, determined, and ambitious, Egyptian scriptwriter Mariam Na‘oum’s string of…
Tribute to Radwa Ashour
Radwa Ashour was not just a writer. Like the powerful female characters in her books, she…
Heavier Than Radwa: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Heavier The Radwa (2014) From Chapter Sixteen: In the Time of Revolution, 197–198 We must…
Poems
Metamorphoses Each of them was transformed into an animal That one turned into a dog and became loyal…