The Last Crossing Mbarek Sryfi

The Last Crossing Mbarek SryfiWhen the Egyptian architect Mukhtar arrives in Oman to oversee a building project, he finds its a bait and switch. Instead of drawing up building plans, he is trapped into doing back breaking manual labour. As Mukhtar is forced from one demeaning job to the next, he pines for Houria, the love he left behind in the hopes of making enough money to support her. As he navigates the underbelly of the Omani economy, he and Houria exchange increasingly

In more recent times one need go no further than Tolstoy to find an author turning against his own earlier writings

excerpts from creative diaries and blogs

who cautiously recounts the story of his family’s flight from Spain following the Edict of Expulsion in 1609 and divulges the existence of lost Arabic manuscripts

Mona Zaki I Loved You for your Voice by Sélim Nassib

They include the well-known poets Amjad Nasser and Khaled Mattawa

Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin trans

gestalt consists of visual poetry

Plum’s life appears to be puttering along what seems like a tediously predictable path

binding the strange and surreal to the everyday – to make possible a place where a one mother turns owl

Pau wrestles with language

Mary becomes the sex toy of a high official of the regime

or succumb to the rampaging kaiju