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War

A photo of a brown leather wallet

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Code Name: Butterfly

By Ahlam Bisharat

It terrified me to hear the words “honor” and “flesh” in the same sentence.

Translated from Arabic by Nashwa Gowanlock

The Art of Expressing One’s Agony: An Interview with M. Raouf Bachir

By Alice Guthrie

In short, the ongoing war in Syria is not a revolution.

War

By Manal Al-Sheikh

One day there will be no men

Translated from Arabic by Angham A. Abdullah

Multilingual

On Packing

By Herta Müller

I carried everything I had. It wasn't actually mine.

Translated from German by Donal McLaughlin

A Bullet Fired into the Night

No one knows he used to be a man

Translated from Vietnamese by Martha Collins & Ngo Tu Lap

Diary

By Mahmoud Darwish

If you were told: you're going to die here this evening What would you do in the remaining time?

Translated from Arabic by John Berger & Tania Tamari Nasir

From “The Rising of the Ashes”

By Tahar Ben Jelloun

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: La remontee des cendres (The Rising of the Ashes) is the title of a small text, written in French by the Paris-based Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun. It was published by Editions…

Translated from French by Cullen Goldblatt

Photo of the Oudezijds Kolk canal in Amsterdam

Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From “The Ministry of Pain”

By Dubravka Ugrešic

Instead of talking, they seem to be patting each other with words, spreading a soothing, sonorous saliva over one another.

Translated from Croatian by Michael Henry Heim

I Pity the Garden

By Forugh Farrokhzad

The schoolchildren fill their backpacks / with tiny bombs.

Translated from Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

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