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Chapters 14 and 15 - The End
Translated by Phoebe Bay Carter. Chapter 14: Brave New World Days passed, followed by nights. Weeks turned into months until nearly three months had…
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Chapters 12 and 13
Translated by Phoebe Bay Carter. Chapter 12: The Days (2) Sunday, September 11th: I can’t take it anymore. Allah, why are you punishing me like this…
Chapter 11: Bed Hopper or, The Dust of Promises
Translated by Phoebe Bay Carter. He was by no means handsome. He was, as I’ve said, skinny and irritable. But his eyes had a certain charm that drew…
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Chapter 10: Chaos of the Senses
Translated by Phoebe Bay Carter. You know what will happen, of course. The couple will spend a few happy days together. But if the story were only a…
Chapter 8: Audio
Listen now | A Thousand and One Nights: The day following his metamorphosis, Jawad awoke to his mother’s scream and the clatter of her incense holder…
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February 2022

Chapter 9: Memory in the Flesh
Translated by Phoebe Bay Carter. Mohammed al-Idrisi was ten years old when he ran away from home – and from his whole village. He’d been fatherless…
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Chapter 7: Audio
Listen now | The Days (1): I woke up this morning to a scream piercing my eardrums and a cold fist of steel clenching my heart. My first thought was…
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Chapter 8: A Thousand and One Nights
Translated by Phoebe Bay Carter. Once upon a time there was, or there wasn’t,[1] a kindhearted individual named Jawad. One morning, he awoke to find…
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