The Last CrossingWhen the Egyptian architect Mukhtar arrives in Oman to oversee a building project, he finds its a bait and switch. Instead of drawing up building plans, he is trapped into doing back breaking manual labour. As Mukhtar is forced from one demeaning job to the next, he pines for Houria, the love he left behind in the hopes of making enough money to support her. As he navigates the underbelly of the Omani economy, he and Houria exchange increasingly

As a collaborative project

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scrutinize and shoulder the histories that hammer the self into existence

insightful collection of new work from some of poetry’s most talented emerging voices

Mohamed Choukri A short story Men Have All the Luck

Fadhil Assultani

Some do it with a bitter look

" — Jonathan Freedland

Marianne Munk

and jocular mind

Since the 1950s he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it in books like Ways of Seeing

works and huge influence on modern Arabic poetry of this renowned poet