Interview with Shaden Fakih
Ever since Shaden Fakih first owned the Cliffhangers storytelling stage in May of this year, with what has become her…
Van DeerAugust 31, 2018
Going and Leaving
The debris rose from the fire the air thickened with the name of God I missed it by a mile…
Rami Abi AmmarAugust 31, 2018
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Deemed as “Mexico’s greatest novelist,” writer Yuri Herrera presents his readers with an incredibly multilayered, fantastical, yet oddly-realistic narrative of…
Christy ChoueiriAugust 31, 2018
Yekermo Sew
The English translation of Yekermo Sew was developed, in part, through a collaboration with Masrah Ensemble in Beirut, Lebanon, in…
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Nafkote TamiratAugust 31, 2018
I Belong to a Gravesite
to the Assy family: to my family, which means that one day, when my vital organs fail me or…
Jessy AssyAugust 31, 2018
Shadows
It was dark where I was, near the corner where the shadows slept. The night was cold. A discarded plastic…
Tariq MehmoodAugust 31, 2018
Red Lights Mean Stop
The disgusting scent of oily hair fills my nostrils. “Salma, Salma, there’s someone here,” Aisha called out. “Do they look…
Muzna MughalAugust 31, 2018
Grief, a Revolving Landscape
1. Dreaming in Arabic, flying red clouds hang over the high Chouf village. A young boy dresses early by lamp…
Adele Ne JameAugust 30, 2018
