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 …
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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 …
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.” …
A String of Thoughts of Life, Death, and In Between
Mystery Whenever I walk down a new street where I have never walked before, I look at the balconies and windows and imagine the many different lives and lurking secrets …
The Witches of Ascalon
I moved my hips in circles, small and large, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. I held my arms out at my sides. I twisted my wrists. “Oh—“I sang. “Daughter of the …
WORLDS TO CONSUME – A Dialogue on the Value and Place of Food in Building Sci-Fi Worlds
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD “All nature faithfully” – But by what feint Can Nature be subdued to (the artist’s) constraint? Her smallest fragment is still infinite! And so he …
Conversation – A Poem
What did you do while the children of Gazawere dying? I argued with their killers. What did you say? I said that the innocent deserve innocence.That the sound of laughter …