Whispers of Resilience

In the heart of a small land where dreams are often swallowed by the shadows of occupation, therelived a passionate girl whose spirit refused to be extinguished. From the earliest …

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A Lorry of Dust

Osman Shinger

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 …

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Diary of a Corpse Swollen with Life

Omar Alsaiem

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, …

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The Sun Rose Today

Tala Albanna looking at Sunrise in Gaza City

Her heart was shaking When we were playing in a circle Her wide–brown eyes Opened like an owl under a blue moon to scan for danger She crossed her arms …

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Obatit’s Ploys

Maryoud

“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 …

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I Am Not The Same

Jasmine in Moonlight

A kite that flies over headsin attempts to rebirth a forgotten ritualin a place that glorifies traditionto break the sky’s dominance. An olive tree keen in silence,ripped away from its …

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A Dream on a Stone Wedge?

Mona Mohamed Saleh

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 …

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The Silk Road Embrace

abstract art

The sphere upon which mortals come and go,Has no end nor beginning that we know;And none there is to tell us in plain truth:Whence do we come and whither do …

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The Humanistic Tendencies of Mansour El Souwaim’s Fictional Works

Mansour El-Swaim

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), …

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You Will Give Birth to a daughter

Girl in the shadows

If I could go back in time and tell my young self one day long fromnow you will give birth to a daughterand birthing her will be unlikeanything else you …

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