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انتظار
By: Fathi Nasib on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
ستأتي كاشراقة الشمس عقب المطر. ستجلس أمامه في مهابة ، ويتقافزان بحديثهما من ضفة إلى أخرى. سيشكو لها بألم وحدته، وكيف تبخر الأصدقاء ، الواحد تلو الآخر، كمدا أو عشقا أو جنونا أو اغترابا. منهم من غيبه...
الكستناء
By: Anna Alkhamisi on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
امتدت اليد تمسح بنعومة الكتف الطفولية التي برزت من تحت الملاءة. ” آن الأوان لتستيقظي”. شقت الكلمات بدفئها برد الحجرة وعتمتها. تدلت الساقان الصغيرتان من على حافة السرير العالية. تأرجحتا في...
فرحة ضغيرة
By: Ahmad Alkhamisi on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
نحيفا، طويلا، هشا، يرتقي الدرج. يتطاير الشعر الأبيض الخفيف على جانبي رأسه الأصلع. يتأرجح بين الجدار وسور السلم فيستند إلي السور بيده اليمنى ويحكم بوعي قبضته الأخرى على علبة "آيس كريم". في سن...
هارد ديسك خارجي
By: Ahmed Shablool on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
تعطل جهاز اللابتوب عن العمل فجأة، فلم أستطع غلقه ولا فتح أي ملف به، وبذلت كل المحاولات وضغطت على كل المفاتيح التي أعرفها والتي لا أعرفها، ولم يستجب، نزعت عنه الكهرباء، وأخرجت البطارية الداخلية، وأعدت...
The Land That Shines At The Bottom Of The River
By: Rabea Elaswani on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
In the clean white gown they had just dressed me, I followed the professor, supporting myself on the arm of the fat impatient nurse or alternatively pressing my weight against the moist corridor wall....
Gate of Confusion
By: Yahya Alqaisi on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
Every morning I used to walk from Alhabeeb Bourkiba Street towards the old city avoiding the pedestrian crowd, the sound of car horns, the clattering noise of the metro with its squeaking rails, bi...
Nine Blue Beads for the Coming One
By: Monir Oteiba on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
The First Bead She shut herself in her mother's room and took the old chest from under the bed. With difficulty, she turned it upside down and emptied all its content on the floor. She tossed a...
Old Ibren
By: Abdul Adan on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
Ibren Issak, an elderly resident of El-Adawa, sat at a table at Hassanow’s - a cheap restaurant on the main road that relies on travellers for its business. Since the tribal war had broken out,...
MAKING CORRECTIONS
By: Abdul Adan on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
“For about six months now,” said Khalid to Fr. Woodrath, his British neighbour and missionary. “I have been contemplating a lot. The human race is in big trouble and I have come to f...
The Cell
By: Mona Namoury on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
He went into her luxurious cell. As usual, she was drawing on all sides of the cell's walls: skies, roses, trees and birds ... He could hear her birds chirping; he could feel the heat of her sun c...
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