by Martin Hayes Marcus hasn’t been doing too well latelyhis woman left him last week and two months before thathis mother diedso his performance stats, which are... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi O tyrant heart, does pity not take root?Where olive branches weep beneath the flame,You silence mouths with famine’s iron boot—A crafted curse, yet call... Continue reading
‘Yes I think we [Welsh] rather love precipices, we go towards them, then withdraw… I think we all do, we Celts… …there was a second or two... Continue reading
By Razia Parveen In examining the powerful narratives of Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and the anthology We Are Not Numbers, edited by Ahmed Alnouq and Pam... Continue reading
‘It feels a dark kind of summer, in which prejudice is dressed in fuchsia and the political class shrug their shoulders while the angry mob grows. We... Continue reading
A prosepoem by Maria de Stefano Monteleone is a small agricultural hilltop town in the region of Puglia in southern Italy. During WW2 most of its men... Continue reading
By Dennis Broe The Netflix series Marked begins with a bang, an armoured car robbery from the point of view of the female driver Babalwa who eludes... Continue reading
it is 1985 and you’re 19 at Wembley dogsdrinking Hofmeister from a brown plastic bottleafter a shift answering phones at the mini-cab officeand there’s a hurdle race... Continue reading
Symbol of Hope, by Sliman Mansour Yahia Lababidi presents the Introduction to his new book of poetry, Palestine Wail, together with a poem from the book INTRODUCTION:... Continue reading
A mosque destroyed in the Jabalia area of the Gaza Strip. Commons image by Jaber Jehad Badwan By Richard Penderyn Last year a letter I co-authored on... Continue reading