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The Train
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
Bitter Morning
Translated by: Dr Shakir Mustafa
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....

تأملات في فلسفة الوجود والحياة
تأملات في فلسفة الوجود والحياة
By: Alaeldin Al-Araji on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Poetry

أيُهـذا الساري بــدربِ الحياةِ وطويتَ العقـــودَ والسنواتِ وخـَبَـرتَ الأحداثَ في كل فجّ ٍ هل تـَرى لـُجـَّة َ الكيان العاتي؟ هل تعي ما يدورُ في أيِّ صَـقع ٍ تحت أبصارِنا وفي الذراتِ ؟ * * * نح...

فصول مختارة من رواية عزازيل
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...

1/4 Gram - The Novel
1/4 Gram - The Novel
By: Editor on: Saturday 21 October 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews

“1/4 Gram” is a 648-page Social Novel, which is based on a true story. Plot Line: Salah, the narrator, tells the story of a group of friends who try a quarter gram for the first time duri...

الجثمان
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
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...

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