LISA The Last of the Wadi Jews By Hassan Dauod A synagogue in Beirut. This time Lisa didn’t come down to meet us. She left us waiting for half an hour in the nearby shop, and then sent someone … Continue reading
The Suicide Bomber Fiction by Samir El-Youssef (For Rachel) Listen! I never wished to kill my father while he was still alive. However the desire to rid myself of my memory of him has now become so strong and leaves … Continue reading
A Jewish Lawrence of Arabia By Lewis Gropp Muhammad Asad’s biography reads like a novel by Alexandre Dumas. The Road to Mecca is a saga of incredible adventures by a crucial twentieth-century Islamic thinker and a key … Continue reading
No Place Like Home A Major New Exhibition By Judah Passow Introduced By Jonathan Freedland There’s often a gap between how we see ourselves and how we really are. That’s true of us as individuals and it’s true … Continue reading
Cats up a Pole Fiction By Jad El Hage Chosen and translated from Arabic by the author from his recently published book, Thalathoun Hikaya (Thirty Tales) Bissan Books, Beirut, this story was inspired by the real battle to … Continue reading
Reaching Jaffa Toby Lichtig (An extract from a novel) As the Alameda forged its way towards the coast at Jaffa, the passengers congregated on deck, excitedly pointing out the emergent signs of land and civilization. A blurred line … Continue reading
Three Poems By Moris Farhi LUCK Luck is not smiling upon us they say Fortune has gone to visit Mehmet in the next village and Reason’s on a pilgrimage they say who cares come smile at … Continue reading
Rumsfeld’s Feast Fiction by Mahmoud Shukair My eldest uncle woke up before dawn and got ready for the expected feast. ‘He didn’t seem to have slept,’ we said to one another, ‘or perhaps he slept but … Continue reading
east jerusalem blues by Michael Zand brother . these are our blues up and in the walls . sheets stick . wafting in the wind there are no territories here for the rats . for the blues along the … Continue reading
Your CV is not Your Life! Review by Rachel S Harris Curriculum Vitae is a remarkable novel by Yoel Hoffman, one of Israel’s most original avant garde writers; an autobiographical tour de force that toys with the conventions … Continue reading