Out of GazaAt the beginning of the Fifth Gaza War, the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer defiantly promised that if the Israeli Defence Force attacked his house he would throw my pen in the faces of the soldiers. A few weeks later, Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike on the building. Since the outbreak of the Israel Hamas war in October 2023, over 20k Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, almost all of them civilians. Four thousand children were killed in

Mehdi Charef: continuing excerpt from Alexina’s House

Halim Barakat: Excerpt from the novel The Crane

and I think too that Arthur is terribly jealous of Bob

other” is that you present an opportunity for nice

Includes poems by John Berger

candid and knowing

Readers of this book will undoubtedly hope that Markham will publish another novel soon

and a sequence of computer-generated translations of classic literature

he meditates on the apple tree: ‘crouched down as if something brutal had happened / for the sweetness to come’

with Spanish and English versions on facing pages

near Paris

Fadwa Kilani and Sînîn Çaycî