Born in early 525 AD in northwest Arabia, Jayida is secretly raised as a boy for her safety. In defiance of al-‘ayn, the evil eye, she grows up as Jonder and soon becomes known for perceptiveness and bravery. But her …
Nikita and Natacha, of Russian nobility, flee the Russian Revolution to Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. Thus is born my grandfather Nicola’s story: from adolescence in Eastern Europe, to serving in Egypt during World War II, to his imprisonment at the …
Inspired by personal and family experiences, Twisted Reflections weaves two fiction and six nonfiction dark short stories that take readers to diverse places like the Holy Land, Brussels and Paris. At once unsettling and fascinating, gentle and cruel, imaginary and …