The Last Crossing Mbarek SryfiWhen the Egyptian architect Mukhtar arrives in Oman to oversee a building project, he finds its a bait and switch. Instead of drawing up building plans, he is trapped into doing back breaking manual labour. As Mukhtar is forced from one demeaning job to the next, he pines for Houria, the love he left behind in the hopes of making enough money to support her. As he navigates the underbelly of the Omani economy, he and Houria exchange increasingly
In more recent times one need go no further than Tolstoy to find an author turning against his own earlier writings
excerpts from creative diaries and blogs
who cautiously recounts the story of his family’s flight from Spain following the Edict of Expulsion in 1609 and divulges the existence of lost Arabic manuscripts
Mona Zaki I Loved You for your Voice by Sélim Nassib
They include the well-known poets Amjad Nasser and Khaled Mattawa
Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin trans
gestalt consists of visual poetry
Plum’s life appears to be puttering along what seems like a tediously predictable path
binding the strange and surreal to the everyday – to make possible a place where a one mother turns owl
Pau wrestles with language
Mary becomes the sex toy of a high official of the regime
or succumb to the rampaging kaiju
