İlhan Sami Çomak speaks to reporters outside Marmara Prison, formerly known as Silivri Prison, following his release on November 26, 2024, after more than thirty years of incarceration.
By Hesham Eldeeb O Lord, take away immortality,but leave this cold apple cellar.Take the souls and all your playthings, but spare our lives,neither Adam’s, nor Eve’s, nor your son’s,but my son’s life.This damp cave in
It had rained all night. But the morning was sunny and gorgeous. The dappled sunlight formed chiaroscuro patterns that appear only in summer. Early birds were chirping, and the air felt clean and fresh. I
Taliban fighters crowd onto military vehicles, white flags raised high as they move through the street. Photo: Ziaullah Ibrahimkhil I am a woman who loves life and the act of living. Why? Perhaps because death
Don’t Shout Anymore Stop killing the dead,Don’t shout anymore, don’t shoutIf you still want to hear them,If you hope not to perish. They have an inaudible whisper,They don’t make noise anymoreThan that of the growing
Qui Entendra Nos Cris? | Published by Éditions de l’Observatoire, Jan. 2024Translated from Farsi (Afghanistan) to French by Zaher Divantchegui Author’s Note: The story you are about to read is not an ordinary tale. It is
Translator’s Note: Kagay-an and a Love in the Time of an All-Out War (2018) unfolds in the early 2000s, during former president and kleptocrat Joseph Estrada’s “all-out war” against Islamic separatists and communist insurgents in the Philippine
Palestinian Woman | Acrylic on canvas | 2024 To be a Palestinian mother, you must learn some simple things: how to hold your wounded child until he sheds his last drop of blood; crafting words to
Editor’s Note: The following three poems are part of a cycle Olga Bragina wrote in 2023, a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, after several weeks of intense bombing, she
About the Novel: O Fogo Será a Tua Casa (Fire Shall Be Your Home) by Nuno Camarneiro was published in Portugal in 2018. It tells the story of an international group of hostages being held by rebels
Translator’s Note: Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She held a BA in Biochemistry and an MA
Translator’s Note: “How We Spent the Fifties” is a satirical short story from a collection of humorous stories written by Miloslav Šimek and Jiří Grossmann that tells the tale of the turmoil and absurdity of
