MAI AL-NAKIB

"Naaseha's Counsel"

The Markaz Review, 22: "Stories" Issue

"'I must have been a year old, maybe a year and a half, when I was stolen off the continent of Africa.'"

"Mourning Monique"

After the Pause, 5.4, p 40

“I film as doctors and nurses verify she is dead.”

“Christmas Cake in Kuwait”

Novel of the World, pp 634-39

"To say that the pages of my mother’s 1972 orange-red, hardback copy of Betty Crocker’s Cookbook are well worn would be a gross understatement."

“The Year of Selma”

The First Line, 12.2, pp 5-1

“‘We need to talk.’ I hadn’t heard his voice in twenty years.”

“Chinese Apples”

Ninth Letter, 5.2, pp 120-28

“Japan is marvelous when you’re ten.”