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سور النسيان
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...

The Taste of Olives
The Taste of Olives
By: Editor on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

Ahram Weekly Mahmoud El-Wardani Ta'm Al-Zaytoun (The Taste of Olives), Sahar Tawfiq, Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, 2000. pp136 Towards the end of the 1970s, Sahar Tawfiq published a col...

A Pair of Blue-Gum Trees in Giza
A Pair of Blue-Gum Trees in Giza
translated by Marilyn Booth
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
In Search Of A Maze
translated by Marilyn Booth
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
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...

Sex on the Beach
Sex on the Beach
By: Mohamed Tawfik on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories

The following story " Sex on the Beach " is from a collection written by  M.M.Tawfik and translated by A. Amin entitled "The Day the Moon Fell". "MY husband is mine&nb...

أوراق شخصية
أوراق شخصية
By: Mohamed Soliman on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Poetry

كي تعرف أني سرت هنا كيلا تحسبني شبحا أو حجرا أو ريحا كي تدرك اني كالغرباء جلست علي حجر في الركن وكالغرباء بنيت بيوتا في الذاكرة وكالغرباء غفوت علي كرسي المقهي سأرص حروفي وأبعثر أوراقي.. الش...

حين يصبح الشعر وسادة الذات
حين يصبح الشعر وسادة الذات
By: Editor on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

قراءة في ديوان ” اسمي ليس أنا ” لمحمد سليمان صبحي موسى المصدر مدونة صبحي موسى قديماً كانت القبيلة إذا ظهر بها شاعر جديد أخذت تفاخر جاراتها به ، وكان الشاعر في ذلك الوقت يعد فيلسوف...

The Alexandria Collection
The Alexandria Collection
Costantine Cavafy poems selected and presented in multi-lingual form by Larry Barouch
By: Larry Barouch on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Poetry

6 CANDLES The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight---- Golden and warm and lively little candles. The days that are past are left behind, A mournful row of...

On Being Sick
On Being Sick
By: Jacqueline Cooper on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Stories

It must have been around midnight when I began to throw up. I was fourteen. I got up and banged on my parents door having learned early in life that one never suffered in silence in Alexandria. Within...

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