Category: Short Stories
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Review: Egypt + 100: Stories from a Century after Tahrir – ed. Ahmed Naji
by Yasmin Desouki [Comma Press; 2024] How do you imagine a future unencumbered by the heaviness of the present? Is it at all possible to envision a world completely different from the one we currently inhabit, or is the horizon of imagination defined by its limitations rather than its amorphous possibilities?…
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My sister (short story)
A new story translated by Katharine Halls published by https://rustedradishes.com/ Red the full story here: My Sister – Rusted Radishes “I saw the shaykh gesture to his helper, who handed him the cane, then in a flash he brought the cane down hard on my sister’s shoulder. My brother and…
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Lions of the Church
1 Antar Harami’s kingdom stretches from the iron bridge to the gristmills in the east, and from the El Gaz drainage canal southward all the way to the police checkpoint at the International Hospital. His power and protection extend over all living things in his domain—most especially the dogs. His…
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Godshow.com
1. Las Vegas was brimming with mosques. As soon as I’d typed “mosque near me” into the Google Maps search, myriad red dots displayed themselves all at once on my screen. The Al-Hamada mosque, one of the first Las Vegas mosques founded in the Seventies, and winner of a five-star…
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The Case of the Missing Liver
A new short story Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette was published recently.. Check it out, and try to find where is the Missing liver
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I Bit My Tail and it Tasted So Good
ArabLit Quarterly’s sea-themed issue has arrived to extend your summer deep into September Featuring my short story. Order your copy now: https://t.co/TAxQhfndD2 pic.twitter.com/7mBqfYgQ49 — Ahmed Naji (@AhmedNajiTW) September 3, 2019
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Normal- (Short Story/ Translated be Mona Karem
One time as I was heading back to Sixth of October city, a prostitute showed up on the way dressed in the official uniform, a black cloak without a headscarf, and instead she had bangs and black hair falling over her shoulders. She was carrying a huge neon bag. Just…
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Ambulance – Short story/ Translated by: Mona Karem
She was sucking my dick when suddenly she stopped to ask if I had given grandmother her medicine. I looked at her then laying my head back, my waist forward, extending my dick into her mouth, I said: “Yeah, five drops in half a cup of water.” She smiled, sucking…
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The Plant- Short story translated my Mona Kareem
The Plant I will not come through the door or the window, but as a plant you cannot notice with your naked eye. I will grow day after day, to the sound of your singing and the rhythm of your breath at night. A small plant you will not notice at…
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The plant (short story) translated by: Mona Karem
Hannah Weaver who has done some illustrations inspired by Mona’s translation of your story ‘The Plant’ will not come through the door or the window,but as a plant you cannot notice with your naked eye. I will grow day after day, to the sound of your singing and the…