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I’m seeking you, Isbilia, my sultana, on the cloudy circle of water where I spread my glance to pierce your reflection, somewhere, between the foam and the wave, on the crest of imperceptible…
“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th July 1922. It is needless to say that I greatly…
We eat to live. The world is one vast dining room, in which each living thing both consumes and is consumed, in infinite cycles. Everything alive is a potential foodstuff. Big…
Grandpa:And here my grandson gets married! I’m so happy for you! cheers! Le-chayim! I’m sure the bride is beautiful…but the most important thing is she should be a good wife, obedient, who loves…
Every day at siesta time, when under the scorching heat of the sun the little town of Kenadza was breathing its last, Madame Karsenty would settle down on the sofa in the living room where her son…
Hanin, ‘Abd al-Khaliq, Ilyas, Butrus, and those [actors] previously mentioned.Hanin:Good morning, Mitri! Bonjour, Istifan!Mitri:What morning? It’s noon already, you wino!‘Abd al-Khaliq:And who…
That summer there was a famine in the Negev. From the beginning of winter until its conclusion, not even a single drop of rain fell. The floodgates (Genesis 7:11) were closed; they…
This drawing by Else Lasker-Schüler appeared on the frontispiece of her 1912 novel Mein Herz: Ein Liebes Roman (My Heart: A Novel of Love). Lasker-Schüler created a fantastical world in her poems and…
