Articles By Mona Namoury
Three Green Canaries
By: Mona Namoury on: Wednesday 20 December 2017 - Genre: Stories
Master Abdo, the Oymagy1, our neighbor, traveled to Iraq and left his son As’ad in the shop. As’ad was a tall fair boy with yellowish hair. In his father’s absence, he would come aft...
Narrating the Arab Spring through Radwa Ashour's Siraaj
By: Mona Namoury on: Monday 20 November 2017 - Genre: Book Reviews
Radwa Ashour's Siraaj promises a continuity of the revolution till “Bread, freedom, and social justice” are finally achieved says Mona el-Namoury. From a presentation at Arab Spring...
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...
The Last Jar of Home-made Strawberry Jam
By: Mona Namoury on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories
Days went by as Merna, a professional translator, struggled with the translation of a poem. Seduced by Stevie Smith’s short, easy-dictioned poem, “Not Waving But Drowning”, Merna had...
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