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Fire and Sinbad
Fire and Sinbad
By: Adeeb Kamal on: Tuesday 24 October 2017 - Genre: Poetry

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen in a new Australian anthology One of Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s poems has been chosen and published in a new anthology edited by the President of the Multicultural Writers of Aus...

أجلسُ جنبَ حياتي
أجلسُ جنبَ حياتي
By: Seham Gabbar on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories

1 أجلسُ جنبَ حياتي أطعمُها الفراشاتِ المتيبّسة وقد توقّفَ رفيفُ الفضاء وصمتَ الضوءُ المتورّد وكففتُ عن الركضِ طويلاً خلف المطر 2 أوراقٌ في المرآة تتتالى أكونُ كلمةً وأرضى أن أخرجَ عن سر...

قالوا ثلاثة وهو رابعهم
قالوا ثلاثة وهو رابعهم
By: Aziz Altamimi on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories

(.. قم فانذر …) ، رسالة بعثها الروح لأهل الأرض ، إسرافيل تاه في أرض بابل ، قالت مدينة الملائكة ، مزحة سمجة ، صاروا ثلاثة وهو رابعهم ، أكدت مدينة الملائكة : لم يفق قبل ارتداد الشمس عن اللعب في ح...

منظومة القراءة ، سلطة القارئ
منظومة القراءة ، سلطة القارئ
By: Aziz Altamimi on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Essays

القراءة تمثل وحدة معرفية من حيث الأداء التحليلي أو الإستقرائي لتحصيل رؤية معينة أزاء منتج معين ، ولإنجاز مهمة القراءة طبقاً للتعريف اللغوي الذي أشرت إليه في دراسة " القراءة بين الإكتشاف والتأويل...

القراءة بين الإكتشاف والتأويل
القراءة بين الإكتشاف والتأويل
By: Aziz Altamimi on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Essays

كثيرة هي المحاولات التي تشتغل على إعادة فلسفة مفهوم القراءة من حيث هي عملية إكتشاف قبل أن تكون تأويل للنص المكتوب ، ويبدوا للوهلة الأولى أن مفهوم الإكتشاف أقرب إلى تأكيد صحة الإدعاءات التي تدعِّم مفهو...

Figure in Repose
Figure in Repose
Translation Shakir Mustafa
By: Mahmoud Saeed on: Monday 23 October 2017 - Genre: Stories

Boston University “Did you hear the doorbell ring?” He asked her, his eyes still closed. “Go back to sleep--it’s the athan(1). She turned her back to him, and her head san...

The Soldier and the pigs
The Soldier and the pigs
Translated by Dr. Ahmad Sadry
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
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
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....

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