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Meanwhile, on the Train (khulud khamis)

Verity La February 19, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Fiction, New

July 2014 Raya stands by the open window, slowly brushing her long hair. It’s Thursday evening, and she watches people rushing about; she sees soldiers — children, really — hurrying with their …

WHAT SPARK IGNITES AN ACTIVIST? khulud khamis’s Haifa Fragments

Verity La October 14, 2015 Through the Looking Glass: Reviews

Review by Amanda Hickey What is the spark that ignites an activist? Is it an event, a family grievance, a brush stroke of history? Or an undeniable truth that breaks …

The Cry Room (Gaele Sobott)March 12, 2018
Birth I just slipped out she said. Like a slip of the tongue, slipshod, a slip stitch forever unknitted. I was born. Slippery, sibilant, small in the scheme of everyday ... Read More
HOME, LAND AND LONGING: Tangea Tansley’s A Question of BelongingSeptember 20, 2019
Reviewed by Carmel Bendon Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Between 1976 and 1992 the country of Mozambique was torn asunder by civil war as the Frelimo nationalist movement fought for independence ... Read More
The Motel No Vacancy (Fiona Hardy)November 14, 2018
I moved across from the hotel when I was seven years old and my mother gave me to her parents, like a late Christmas present, just before the New Year. ... Read More