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Genre: Stories
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...
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...
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...
Arabian Jasmine Island
By: Nagwa Shaaban on: Friday 20 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
A Piece inspired by Nagwa Shaaban's novel "the Karm Gale" The news first leaked from a synagogue in Damietta. Careful study of the numerology of the Old Testament had unveiled a catac...
نوة الكرم
By: Nagwa Shaaban on: Friday 20 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
الفصل الأول من رواية نجوى شعبان إهداء إلى الغالية : إحسان فهمى قالت إيزيس : " أنا ما كان ، وما هو كائن ، وما سيكون.. وما من إنسان بقادر على رفع برقعى " أليست " الحقيقة...
المرأة التي تبتسم.. في حُلمي
By: Azza Rashad on: Friday 20 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
اعتادت أن تطرق باب شقتنا كل يوم في نفس الموعد، طرقتين متلازمتين، كنت أميزهما بسهولة رغم حداثة سني في ذلك الوقت. تحمل أمي الصحن الفخاريَّ الفارغ الذي تكون قد وضعت به النقود منذ الصباح فتعطيها إياه بيده...
الليل .. لمَّا خِلي
By: Azza Rashad on: Friday 20 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
ما أن تجاوزت قدماها باب المستشفى حتى بدأت تقسم الطريق إلى بيتها، إلى ثلاثة أقسام كما اعتادت أن تفعل، أن تلهو، بافتعال لعبة تحترفها تماماً، لتحدي سأم الخمس عشرة دقيقة التي لابد أن تنقضي ريثما تصل إلى...
رؤية
By: Azza Rashad on: Friday 20 October 2017 - Genre: Stories
بمجرد أن ينقر ظهري بأصابعه المدببة أو يجذبني من الفراش بحدة، فأدلي ساقيّ نحو الأرض حيث تنزلق قدمايّ في الشبشب الذي يكون قد وضعه لي في المكان الملائم لهما تماماً، أعرف أننا في يوم السبت. فقط في صباح ال...
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