The roulette with three bullets greased inside the chamber fuses in my mind with the events that followed.

In war, nothing has meaning except escape or imprisonment.

This temporal and spatial here and there are interchangeable according to the power of the artist's passion and perseverance in making his art, as well as his eternal alliance with the higher power that he recognizes and his refusal to bow down to temporary…

Behind him the Tiber is an abyss drawn on tissue paper.

The summer grew hotter and the war more voracious. It brought convoys of flags, medals of honor, and village youths in coffins back to us.

Sherko Fatah writes of smugglers and minefields on the border with Turkey.

How can one explain that which goes beyond logic? In the dream I was asked to read something and I couldn't.

People would believe the most absurd things he said, and they wouldn't be mistaken, because everything about him was a little absurd.

Slowly, she opened her eyes. They were met with another pair, filled with tears.

This lunatic's name was Bashan Singh, but everyone called him Toba Tek Singh.

I said let my hand go. People will see!

He is said to be now looking for an American wife. Uncle, for God's sake help him there so that he can be saved from a sorry end.

I looked into her big eyes, cloudy and lifeless with concern, and my heart grew so hot that I could not find the right thing to say.

As long as he could feel her forehead in his hand, nothing bad could happen.

His brow immediately grew red, his rage unmistakeable.

Surveying the men near him to see which ones looked more athletically inclined, he selected the members of a prospective rescue party.

Cut off by the Wall, the line lost its raison d'être decades ago and is reverting to scrub and desert.

She felt a heavy load on her shoulders. She couldn't eat, and she began to weep.

To describe Tehran would be like spelling out a frenzied, hourlong dinner table discussion to a complete newcomer.

“Your eyes are full of sadness, friend.”

Was there anything else worth seeing? Why was I the only one hiking?

I expect to see a person, but there is no one there. The door frame, black and empty like a grave, appears before me. Suddenly, my heart beats faster.

Our government was very generous with its citizens; it couldn't be compared to an imperialist regime.