Jadaliyya`s first summer culture bouquet brings you poetry from Egypt, fiction from Lebanon, and art from Palestine:

* Maymanah Farhat interviews Samia Halaby.

* Ibtisam Azem interviews Hoda Barakat (translated by Suneela Mubayi).

* Gaelle Raphael translates an excerpt from Hoda Barakat`s new novel Kingdom of this Earth.

* Randa Aboubakr translates and introduces "Yamna" by Abdul-Rahman al-Abnudi.

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