Literature

Fereydoun was born in an irreligious and rich family with no idea about religion. Up to the time he entered high school he was not much involved in politics at all. Being a teenager and the identity conflict of that age made him more interested in human sciences as well as religion.
When he entered university [...]

This story happened more than 70 or 80 years ago, in the Galilee Heights, during the British occupation “Mandate” to Palestine, a long time before we had the “honor” to host our “cousins’ the jews. There, in one of the Galilee villages, there was a Palestinian peasant who had a stubborn donkey. Both, the peasant [...]

I made him cry, it was because of me he was crying, only I couldn’t feel anything, actually the more he cried the more I felt better. He wanted me so much to see his tears, to feel them at least, but I couldn’t, I couldn’t believe him, I mean this guy took my life [...]

Last May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of information about the book, my mind was bogged down with deadlines, endless papers and [...]

Part One
-“Water, Please!!” screamed Sheick Buddha feebly.
-“Shut up, dirty pig! Not before breakfast.” roared the zionist jailor who was tapping the corridor behind the massive iron door.
It was chilling hot and I was all sweating in that oven of a cell.
The cell was rectangular, too narrow to enfold the three of us; Kifah, me and [...]

The line between fact and fiction, between what is real and what is made up, is quite often blurred.
The Swedish National Bibliography recently crossed it, reclassifying a book subtitled “A True Story” from factual to fictional, due to questions raised by an ongoing controversy.
Liza Marklund’s book Gömda which was first published in [...]

The Jewel of Medina is a novel by journalist Sherry Jones, where the age-old controversy over Aisha’s age joins that other controversy so popular these days, the one usually expressed tersely in variations of the phrase “Islam is killing our freedom of speech! or “This is the end of Western civilization as we know it!” [...]

Her blonde locks falling over her large curious eyes, the 4-year-old blonde child played with the toys in her hand. Her mother, seemingly in a hurry, took away the toys and tucked her baby girl in bed. “Where are you going mom?” the innocent girl asked. “I’m going to work. Now you go to sleep” [...]

I just returned from a brief visit to New York City and miss her already… So I will commission those of you who are in the Big Apple these days to check out this event, happening tomorrow in midtown Manhattan, if it tickles your awareness:
TRUE CRIMES: THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND THE DEVASTATION OF IRAQ
With Seymour [...]

Some of you may have been wondering about these little comics that have been showing up on the sidebar this week, so I will take this opportunity to introduce myself: Hi! I’m Sarah, I live in Brooklyn, NY, and I make comics. I’m currently in the midst of writing an autobiographical graphic novel about a [...]