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 …
Nassir al-Sayeid al-Nour
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 …
Diary of a Corpse Swollen with Life
After the soldier’s body thrown next to the petrol station swelled, his small diary began to descend as trying to escape the corpse. A writer was passing by in his car, …
Obatit’s Ploys
“What’s the shame of being Ethiopian?” She whispered to herself. Suddenly, a year ago when she fled to Sudan, she discovered that Ethiopian denotes a derogatory, painful word among Sudanese …
A Dream on a Stone Wedge?
The echo doesn’t make a sound. Yassen mutters as his cursing words are blockaded by ghosts, bats of darkness, stone throwers, and those who are stained with the tragedy of …
The Humanistic Tendencies of Mansour El Souwaim’s Fictional Works
Mansour El Souwaim is an acclaimed Sudanese novelist with an international reputation as a short story writer and journalist. During his literary tenure of more than two decades (since 2001), …