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This is what your life has become
‘How are you?’ Whenever someone asks you this question, you assume they care and truly want to know.…
From Local Roots, to Global Reads — An Interview with kotobli
In the cacophonous sea of new technologies and the burgeoning literary platforms such as Goodreads, YouTube, Book Twitter,…
Paris
One of the first foreign cities I visited as a dorky and curious thirteen-year-old was Paris. I went…
I Called him Adam
When the news arrived that my wife was expecting, an electric current of anticipation surged through us, igniting…
A Conversation with Gretchen McCullough
About writing Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure What I love about Confessions…
Samira Azzam: A Palestinian Scheherazade Out of the Shadows
Reading Samira Azzam’s short-story collection Out of Time is a walk down the streets of Palestine, its homes…
The Akladios Brothers: Finding the Copts in Cosmopolitan Alexandria
In 1928, the papal representative at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria and the Majlis al-Milli (lay…
Book Review: Confessions of a Knight Errant
Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure This is not my first encounter with the two main characters of…
The Mallard’s Song
The natural world of birds, trees, and skies has always been my sanctuary. It stills my restless heart…
Minor, Minor Details
You are recommended not to check your phone first thing in the morning, yet this is precisely what…