The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile Maati Kabbal

The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile Maati KabbalRefugees and asylum seekers are rarely out of the headlines, or political debate, but only rarely do people in exile have the opportunity to speak for themselves. The Silver Throat of the Moon includes material from writers originating in countries as diverse as Algeria and Zimbabwe, Somalia and Iran, Kurdistan and Afghanistan. Some authors, like Choman Hardi, Sousa Jamba, Reza Baraheni and the late Miroslav Jancic are now well known internationally

fresh and unique fiction and poetry from around the world

Mark Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery

Always there is yearning for meaning

Her vision is clear and bright

Saadi Youssef – “Fadhil al-Marzoog” An excerpt from Triangle of the Circle

In the visual arts

If it doesn't lift your heart

Terence Dooley: A version of Raymond Queneau’s ‘La Pendule’

stay in those days

Alicia Ostriker

If the truly serious are those who see the world for the joke it is

and to the “Voltaire of the Nile” (as the French press called him) Egyptian author Albert Cossery