The Long LineTom Hadaway is the most acclaimed living dramatist in the North East, and the three plays published here affirm a strongly poetic stage voice which speaks powerfully for a region and a way of life it knows intimately.

Naguib Mahfouz

a flurry of response that is a ‘cosmos or order or harmony in a bag full of hard to categorize leaves’

Judith Kazantzis

and a few days ago he called on Mummy

A prolific poet

He moved permanently to England in 1929 and played in dance and jazz bands in clubs and theatres

Elias Khoury: Excerpt from the novel Bab al-Shams

including The Year of the Revolutionary Bread-Making Machine by Hassan Daoud

Ahmed al-Fagih

a selection of profiles

Akram al-Katreb – A poem My Father

When Tereina was just a child