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A short Story: The Table
On New Year’s Eve, gambling was acceptable. As a child, I never connected the dots; I didn’t know what gambling meant and didn’t reflect on its connection to the adults’ table, which exuded seriousness and tension, drawing much attention at the extended family’s end-of-year, longest-night party. The music was usually loud; family members chatted everywhere;…
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Quick Fiction: The Double
He was standing there lost in front all of those mirrors that surrounded him in this small space of two square meters. The mirrors were set up in a way where each reflection of him in one is reflected again in the other, forming an endless reflections of the same image, the same person, the…
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Revelations
Freud hit me again last night. I was thinking of 3 different issues in the past couple of days related to my study and work. One is about Death and Utopia, the second is about the transition from the big storyline to the sub Utopian storyline in the novel I am working on now, and…
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يزن مصاروة: تقييم لعروس عمان
كتب يزن مصاروة تقييم جميل عن رواية عروس عمان على صفحة الرواية على الفيسبوك. أحببت مشاركتم بها. كان لديه بعض الأسئلة للشخصيات. أعرف أنه هنالك الكثيرون ممن قرأوا الرواية لديهم نفس الأسئلة، لذلك أضيف أجوبتي هنا أيضا. أنصح من لم يقرأ الرواية بعد أن لا يقرأ هذه المدونة لأنها تتكلم عن النهايات. لم أكن أتوقع…
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A review by Merissa Khurma: Aroos Amman
Such a nice review.. thank you Merissa Congratulations, Fadi, on a well-thought out and neatly woven novel. You have captured the most intricate and most intimate layers of our Jordanian social construct in an emotional and deeply stirring tale of many tales. You have done a marvelous job in deconstructing our society’s norms through each…
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3aroos Amman 2nd print!
All copies of my first novel 3aross Amman ran out in less than a year. We have been out of copies for a month now and working hard to get the second print out in its best shape. That is a huge success in local terms of books sales that makes me so happy and…
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Does reading Freud make you mental?
Although, as my friend in class stated, reading psychoanalysis does have an effect on the reader in a sense where s/he starts reading more into her/his own daily choices in ways that s/he never thought about before. It has to do with the realisation of the power of the unconscious and its relationships with the psyche internal different drives.…
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Short Story: Printed Noses
“Haya.. come down..” “HAYA.. COME DOWN..” “Your meal is cold..” “YOUR MEAL IS COLD..” Mother shouted in frustration for the 10th time in the past 30 minutes. She decided then to come up to Haya’s room and have a direct talk with her teenage daughter. “WHAT THE HELL IS..? “ Mother stopped short of completing…
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One of the SEVEN: Don’t miss it!
I am honoured to be part of a play presented by Swedish Institute and embassy that highlights women rights around the world. The play called SEVEN will be shown in Amman for the first time this month on Saturday 20th, Oct and Sunday 21th, Oct. I will be taking a role in the Arabic version of the play alongside…
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Fadi Zaghmout فادي زغموت 