Nonfiction by Sawad Hussain

Aperture: Sudanese Female Novelists Coming into Focus

Is there some sort of double marginalization at play?

Fiction by Rania Mamoun

At the Coffee Shop

This man must be high on something, I thought.

Translated from Arabic by Nesrin Amin

Fiction by Ann El Safi

Freedom of Flight

She is a woman I have watched for many years, and for as many years she has been unaware of me.

Translated from Arabic by Nariman Youssef

Fiction by Zeinab Belail

Al-Nar Street

Women are forbidden from setting foot in the swamp.

Translated from Arabic by Nesrin Amin

Fiction by Amna al-Fadl

Basma’s Dream

She hovers overhead, aimless, surrendering herself to fate.

Translated from Arabic by Katherine Van de Vate