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A Conversation with Gretchen McCullough
About writing Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure What I love about Confessions…
Samira Azzam: A Palestinian Scheherazade Out of the Shadows
Reading Samira Azzam’s short-story collection Out of Time is a walk down the streets of Palestine, its homes…
The Akladios Brothers: Finding the Copts in Cosmopolitan Alexandria
In 1928, the papal representative at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria and the Majlis al-Milli (lay…
Book Review: Confessions of a Knight Errant
Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure This is not my first encounter with the two main characters of…
The Mallard’s Song
The natural world of birds, trees, and skies has always been my sanctuary. It stills my restless heart…
Minor, Minor Details
You are recommended not to check your phone first thing in the morning, yet this is precisely what…
Arriving in Angel Island
When I teach Immigrant Literature, I begin with the poems carved on the walls of the Angel Island…
Cairo: The House of Words
I submitted the manuscript of my new poetry book to Dar Sharqiyat, and that’s that. I’m completely free…
I Believe in God Because I Was Punched in the Face
We were sitting on the roof of your car when you asked me if I still believed in…
Notes on Possibly Dreaming Ways Home
There was a rabbit on the road in Wyoming. We could have been on the moon. The ground…