English Writings

Short story by Luay Abdul-Ilah Doubts in the reality of what happened that night still seduced us whenever we met, and when one of us recalled its…

 My Father’s Paradise: a Son’s Search for his his Family’s Past By Ariel Sabar, Reviewed by Luay Abdul-Ilah  ,Algonquin Books, 2009. £9.99 American…

The wilderness spreads open under the sky. Two colors divided by a mirage. Blue and brown. The world is reduced to symbols. The desert acacia digs its…

Luay Abdul-Ilah Al-Hayat    20/08/ 2003 Hegel says that the present we live is influenced by the past. This is highly applicable on current…

Luay Abdul-Ilah is an Iraqi fiction writer, translator, essayist and Arabic lecturer who has resided in London since 1985. He has published three…

Amir Taheri According to an old proverb, there are three cities in the life of every man or woman: the city of birth, the city of residence, and…