Gretchen McCullough

Gretchen McCullough (www.gretchenmccullough.wix.com/gretchenmccullough) is a senior instructor at the American University in Cairo. Her bilingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli, was published in 2011. A story collection, Shahrazad’s Tooth, was published in 2013.

A Song by the Aegean Sea: A Book of Poetry by Mohamed Metwalli

By Mohamed Metwalli

September 2022
Mohamed Metwalli

New York. Egret Chapbooks. 2022. 54 pages. IT IS RARE THAT a cover captures the essence of a poetry collection as well as does the photograph adorning the front cover of Mohamed Metwa...
A Dedication Poem

By Mohamed Metwalli

May 2018
Mohamed Metwalli

Piburger Lake, Austria. Paul Gilmore/Unsplash To an ordinary manWho couldn’t care lessAbout disasters befalling him,To some modest happinessThat this man finds in a bar in wintertimeWithout a fight,T...
Checking out the Apartment

By Montasser Al-Qaffash

November 2017
Montasser Al-Qaffash

An apartment on the bank of the Nile River for a fair price sounds like a no-brainer, unless that apartment happens to be right next to one of the most infamous prisons in Egypt. Th...