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.

May 2016

The Perception of Meaning by Hisham Bustani

By 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...
September 2012

History Will Not Be Made on This Couch

By Hisham Bustani

To the revolutionaries of Egypt who left their couches and burnt their televisions It’s raining again. Like the winters of my childhood. But my head has changed and is covered in sca...