Curated and Coordinated by Anna Swank

Shahadat is a new monthly online series designed to provide a platform for experimentation and promotion of short form writing on the web.  These stories, vignettes, reflections and chronicles, written by young or underexposed writers from the Middle East and North Africa, are published here  in translation and the original. Bilingual web publication opens the doors to international visibility and encourages the transcendance of cultural and linguistic boundaries in literature and other arts. Shahadat is at once an international forum for writers previously unknown outside of their communities and a window into the contemporary experience of writing and narrating in the Middle East.

This month: Pomp and the Province  By Murat Uyurkulak

This program is generously funded by the Open Society Institute