Rasha Abbas is a Syrian writer and journalist based in Berlin, where she is culture editor at prominent Syrian opposition media outlet Aljumhuriya.net. Her debut short story collection, Adam Hates TV [in Arabic] (al-Amana al-ʿamma li-htifaliyyat Dimashq ʿasimat al-thaqafa, 2008), was awarded a prize for emerging writers at the Damascus Capital of Arab Culture festival, and her collections The Invention of German [in Arabic] (10/11 Publishing Group, 2016) and The Gist of It [in Arabic] (Dar al-Mutawassit, 2017) have both been translated into German to critical acclaim.
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Who Will Play Salaheddin?
Everything had to be put on hold until we found the right person. It wasn’t funny. When Scorpion the son led us into that office one day — it was creepy, had […]