TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORS’ LETTERS
A Word from the Editor
Maryam Piracha
Reading Lebanon, Reading the World
Marcia Lynx Qualey & Yasmina Jraissati
POETRY
Less Than A Drop
Bassam Hajjar, trans. Maged Zaher
The Atheists of Paris
Abbas Beydoun, trans. Maged Zaher
Hey Allen Ginsberg, I think that the fan is rotating
Wadih Saadeh, trans. Maged Zaher
Fog
Etel Adnan
FICTION
180 Sunsets
Hassan Daoud, trans. Marilyn Booth
June Rain
Jabbour Douaihy, trans. Paula Haydar
Other Lives
Iman Humaydan, trans. Michelle Hartman
The Smell of Soap
Elias Khoury, trans. Ghada Mourad[/one_half]
Always Coca-Cola
Alexandra Chreiteh, trans. Michelle Hartman
The Bus
Najwa Barakat, trans. Luke Leafgren
The Curse
Hyam Yared, trans. Michelle Hartman
ESSAYS & FEATURES
The Gaze of the Voyeur
Tom Nixon
How Faerietales Stole Female Sexuality
Ghausia Rashid Salam
Cutting through the Fat
Maria Amir
Reclaiming the Narrative
Sana Hussain
Losing My Fandom
Mahnoor Yawar
Love, Liberty and Exploration: The New Century of Romance
Aaron Grierson
SPOTLIGHT