E-Zine
Genre: Stories
The Soldier and the pigs
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
Samer opened his eyes. What he saw scared him half to death. His heart was pounding violently against his rib cage. What on God's earth was this? An enormous snorting wild bore was lying on its b...
Joud and Hashem
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
The ringing of the phone came like a sharp slap. I woke up. “Who is it?” “I’m Tony,” a man’s voice said. “I’m very sorry to wake you up at this time.&r...
The Train
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
The four of them walked together, carrying backpacks like school children, except for the eldest, maybe a twelve-year old, who was dragging her wheeled luggage behind. They would walk a little, then r...
Bitter Morning
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
Professor, Boston University. Cock-a-doodle-do . . . cock-a-doodle-do. She was awakened by the cock’s shrill calls. She giggled. She turned her eyes to the window and called out at the cock....
فصول مختارة من رواية عزازيل
By: Youssef Ziedan on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
إهـداءٌ خاصٌ جداً : إلى آية .. تلك يا ابنتى ، آيتى ، التى لم تُجعل للعالمين ! لِكُلِّ امرئٍ شَيْطَانُهُ ، حَتَّى أَنَا ، غَيْرَ أَنَّ الله أَعَانَنى عَلَيْهِ فَأَسْلَمَ .. (حديثٌ شريف ، رواه...
الجثمان
By: Ayman Yassin on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
لطمته الكلمات القصيرة..مات رضيعه بعد أن تنسم عبق الحياة يوما أو بعض يوم..تركه الطبيب إلى موظف مسئول لاستكمال بعض الاستمارات..أوراق كثيرة بصم عليها لا يدري ما بها..تنفس الموظف براحة و لملم الأوراق ثم أ...
سور النسيان
By: Afaf Tobala on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
هل قتلته بالأمس فعلاً؟! تلتبس الصور في ذهني.. أتذكر الآن.. نعم قتلته. تقدمتُ نحوه بهدوء.. وطعنته في صدره. كيف أقتله وهو القشة التي أتعلق بها لتنتشلني من الغرق في بحر النسيان الصامت كالموت؟ انفضوا جم...
A Pair of Blue-Gum Trees in Giza
By: Sahar Tawfiq on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
When we fell in love, we left the crowded city, and on that distant site along the small canal we built four walls. That was in a year now distant, when the trees stood higher than the houses, befo...
In Search Of A Maze
By: Sahar Tawfiq on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
That evening, just like every evening, the thin, pale man with the strange fingers came and sat down on the same stone bench. His eyes stared at the same spot, their grey pupils circling and shifting...
The Scorpion's Whisper
By: Mohamed Tawfik on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
Offshoots VII - Geneva 2003 From a novel in progress about a desert expedition in the early 20th century Suspense. In the past few months, Gamila's life has known an unexpected but welcome...
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