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Voices
by Lisa Suhair Majaj 1.the night was brittle with cold bed shaking legs shaking brain shaking I screamed in terror voice shuddering into fragments a weight pressed my chest my …
Fragmented Soul
I looked at my fragmented image in the mirror, many faces with distorted angles looking at me through the shards of mirror glass as if they were all my previous …
A Conversation with Speculative Fiction Writer Zoha Kazemi
Zoha Kazemi is an Iranian speculative fiction writer. She was born in 1982, in Tehran and is currently living there. She has an engineering BS and an MA in English …
A Conversation With Marguerite Dabaie
Marguerite Dabaie, author of the graphic novel The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories (Rosarium 2018), draws autobio, socio-political, and historical-fictional comics with a decorative flair. They have also contributed …
The Hatching
His boys, excited about their first successful hunt, knew they shouldn’t make a sound. Slowly and quietly, they dragged their wet boots over the narrow, cracked concrete ground and walked …
Explore: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life – a Study by Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann
“Islamic tradition has been generally supportive of conceptions of extraterrestrial life” says Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann in his book Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life. “For example, the Qur’an repeatedly …
A Conversation with Lena Mubsutina, Author of Amreekiya
Lena Mubsutina is the author of Amreekiya, an Arab American Book Award winner, a finalist for the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, and one of Foreword’s “Four Phenomenal Debut Novels.” …
Isolation
The bile that filled the back of her throat soured her mouth. She stepped forward, putting her palm on the glass wall and pressing her forehead on the cool glass. …
Mars in the Muslim Mind: Salvation on the Born-Again Red Planet in Hosam Elzembely’s Final Voyage
“President Bush announced that we were landing on Mars today … which means he’s given up on Earth.” – Jon Stewart, The Daily Show This is a study of The …