Contributor

Rasha Abbas

Contributor

Rasha Abbas

Rasha Abbas is a Syrian journalist and writer of short stories. She is currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2008, she published her first collection, Adam Hates the Television, and was awarded a prize for young writers during the Damascus Capital of Arab Culture festival....

In 2013 she co-wrote the script for a short film, Happiness and Bliss, produced by Bedayat, and in 2014 she contributed, both as a writer and as a translator, to Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline, published by Saqi Books. Her second short story collection, The Gist of It, was published in 2019.

Six Proposals for Participation in a Conversation about Bread

By Rasha Abbas

“That’s what we get for supporting Communism: standing in line for this black loaf.”

Translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie

Falling Down Politely, or How to Use Up All Six Bullets Instead of Playing Russian Roulette

By Rasha Abbas

You pour water onto the severed head once again.

Translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie

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Rasha Abbas

Rasha Abbas

Articles by Rasha Abbas

Six Proposals for Participation in a Conversation about Bread

Falling Down Politely, or How to Use Up All Six Bullets Instead of Playing Russian Roulette