Thoraya El-Rayyes

Thoraya El-Rayyes is a Palestinian-Canadian writer living in Amman, Jordan. Her translations of Arabic short stories have previously appeared in Saint Anne’s Review.

The Perception of Meaning by Hisham Bustani
By Hisham Bustani

Hisham Bustani
Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2015. 235 pages.Jordanian author Hisham Bustani has a new book adeptly translated from Arabic into English—a set of fascinating experimental works that N…
History Will Not Be Made on This Couch
By Hisham Bustani
September 2012
Hisham Bustani
To the revolutionaries of Egypt who left their couches and burnt their televisionsIt’s raining again. Like the winters of my childhood. But my head has changed and is covered in…