The Word for WorldWhen Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re envision our own. Le Guins maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always Coming

Ernst Stadler

The narrator in Taleb Alrefai’s novel Samar’s Words is a young Kuwaiti woman

poetry is way to hold and examine the things we are fearful of

or it can ‘mock the mighty’

we read of an ‘eerie maleficent calm

edited by his friend Carlo Levi

Haggag Hassan Oddoul A short story Nights of Musk

Mohja Kahf who writes in English

Peter Clark reviews Modern Arabic Literature by Paul Starkey

“Immaculately engineered

there are no rivers

Norris is fully engaged with his surroundings and their import