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"Travels" features five Arab travel writers: Iraqi Farouk Yousif in New York; Tunisian Hassouna Mosbahi in Andalucia; Algerian Said Khatibi in Sarajevo; Moroccan-Dutch Abdelkader Benali in Tangiers and Syrian-Danish Monir Almajid in Japan. Plus profiles on Jordanian Kafa Al-Zou'bi and British poet Linda France, and other fiction and poetry works.

The "Writing Jerusalem" feature celebrates the city's great storyteller Mahmoud Shukair, a gift for his 80th birthday, with articles, translations, reviews and memories. New fiction from Iraqi, Syrian, Egyptian and Lebanese authors. Guest writer Gibraltarian poet and translator Trino Cruz. Plus interview with editors of the Maktoob project.