I Was a Spy
A jailed conscript finds a novel with its pages torn out, and spends a lifetime searching for the ending of an Indian rebel's story.
Read more →A jailed conscript finds a novel with its pages torn out, and spends a lifetime searching for the ending of an Indian rebel's story.
Read more →A boy waits for breakfast and a box of Dutch cheese — then Quneitra falls before he can taste it, and the loss stays with him for life.
Read more →A man meets, at a scientific conference in Beirut, the schoolmate he never noticed — and discovers that love can arrive late.
Read more →A short poem by Mamdouh Hamadeh about the missing moment at which we are to meet.
Read more →A poem by Mamdouh Hamadeh about a word that means all things, and that he has not yet found.
Read more →A poem by Mamdouh Hamadeh about a last night, and the tale of Aladdin and the magic lamp.
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An exclusive translation of a chapter from "A Stranger in His Own Land."
Read more →A musing on words that turn to stone when they go unspoken.
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