The Hangman
A giant man dangled by the gallows rope driven by a ruthless desire for death. Calmly and expertly, I moved the latch. His death was a nice, delicious and velvety …
Nassir al-Sayeid al-Nour
Nassir al-Sayeid al-Nour is a Sudanese critic, translator and author.
The Hangman
A giant man dangled by the gallows rope driven by a ruthless desire for death. Calmly and expertly, I moved the latch. His death was a nice, delicious and velvety …
The Diver: a Novel about Abu Hamid AL-Ghazali, A Historical Character, Fictionally Restored
The acclaimed Egyptian novelist and linguist Dr. Reem Bassiouney, mostly known for her historical serial novels, in particular her trilogy of the Mamluk era, has recently issued her new novel …
His Own Birth
Her moan dragged me into the place. I was so fatigued. Working a new system had sucked the last lively drop out of our veins, but my mistrust of the …
Nothing at All!
She picked up the teacups and the biscuit crumbs, and everything fell to the ground, and they all lay down with everything on the same floor. In the meantime, the …
A Scar!
On the occasion of February 6th and the opposition to female circumcision in many African and Arab countries. I promised my mother to visit her once a year—I didn’t visit …
A Certainty
Lean on a wall of bewilderment, do not inhale or exhale it with breaths of fear, send it into the deepest interior. The way out passes through a loud scream; …
My Grandmother
I usually get drunk on a hidden street in our old village, a forgotten and unknown street that no one has passed through for a long time. It is the …
The Story of X: The Story Writer
X the story writer squatted as a child expecting a slap for a mistake he made as he read an ad in the newspaper that a company had launched a …
An Equatorial Seduction
There in the salon of my memory, I had peace of mind, calmly sitting waiting for a lover for whom I dressed with full makeup and perfumes. I had bought …
A Lorry of Dust
Just when the lorry stopped in front of the desert cafe, a barren miserable woman appeared from an unknown place. A pathetic expression was engraved on her face toward the …