Arch Connelly’s work was a flashbang: vulgar and excessive to the point of camp.

O men of art, men of letters! Let us take up the challenge together!

Diplomatic messengers in the Late Bronze Age had to endure numerous difficulties to accomplish their missions. But from the surviving correspondence, it seems that Egypt may have been the most hazardo...

Fuck you Habiab, Fuck your Sharwma culture, Fuck you Tarboosh and Keffiyeh and all the reactionary symbols you prompt as "Arab culture."

Fuck you Habiab, Fuck your Sharwma culture, Fuck you Tarboosh and Keffiyeh and all the reactionary symbols you prompt as "Arab culture."

from Ibn Hazm to Antidepressants

Madeleine Schwartz convinced me to share my most sacred secret, my literary sin: how, all this time, I’ve developed a light-handed method for stealing from other writers, following the recipe…

Remembering the free dark

Is now really the right time to talk about the left’s political violence problem?

أسود الكنيسة

25,500 BCE Drowning. 1,500 BCE Drowning. 1,200 BCE After observing animals cross the River Nile, human beings attempt the doggy paddle. 1,200 BCE Drowning.

“These days I have no passport, no documents. And even if I manage to get one, I cannot return to Egypt.”

“As a compassionate group of health hobbyists and one doctor of law, we cannot, in good conscience, recommend people stop taking their SSRIs cold turkey, eve...

short story translated by Rana Asfour

short story translated by Rana Asfour

“Peace 1.0™ is a revolutionary conflict-reduction platform that leverages diplomacy, reduced bombing, and reopened shipping lanes to create value for shareho...

“As a compassionate group of health hobbyists and one doctor of law, we cannot, in good conscience, recommend people stop taking their SSRIs cold turkey, eve...

An offbeat tale of creativity, friendship, and finding your voice in this uproarious journey through Cairo's music scene in the early 2000s, where everything...

PRETEND: “We want queer joy! Write freely!” ACTUAL: “But make sure there’s a straight best friend to guide the reader through the scary parts. If anyone has ...

ربما العودة إلى البريد، سواء عبر مراسلة مشتركة أو خدمة مدفوعة، مجرد علامة على أن فجوةً ما ظهرت في حياتنا العصرية السريعة، وأننا نحتاج إعادة التفكير في شكل التواصل فيما بيننا.

"In every city she visits there is a museum and a memory of an aborted revolution"

هذا النص ضمن «تقليب» #22 «مُنتهى الأدب»

I started the day reading a Natalie Adler article, “Critical condition,” published in the latest issue of Lux. It is one of the best articles I have read about AI. It’s spineless, it has no argument ,...

I started the day reading a Natalie Adler article, “Critical condition,” published in the latest issue of Lux. It is one of the best articles I have read about AI. It’s spineless, it has no argument ,...

In Cassandra Neyenesch’s “A Little Bit Bad,” a suburban mom hunts for her lover’s killer.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin case as an example

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin case as an example

by Yasmin Desouki [Comma Press; 2024]  How do you imagine a future unencumbered by the heaviness of the present? Is it at all possible to envision a world completely different from the on…