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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…
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…
Eid Mubarak
Life is full of strangers who are equal to the task of absence. The holes they climb out…
Photos by Kid Cairo
Kid Cairo received his MA in Film and Media Arts in 2004 from Emerson College in Boston. He spent over…
A Conversation with Gretchen McCullough
About writing Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure What I love about Confessions…
Excerpt of “Confessions of a Knight Errant”
from Chapter 11: Fallout The phone rang. “Clover Flower Girls’ Camp. How can I help you?” I…
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…
Notes on Possibly Dreaming Ways Home
There was a rabbit on the road in Wyoming. We could have been on the moon. The ground…
After Genesis 22
One bloody hand clasped a knife and the other dragged a goat. The blood trickled to meet the crest…
Comprehension
If you peel back the moon, you’ll find the skin of the universe, its matter and veins, the…