Shahrazad’s Gift is a collection of linked short stories, set in an apartment building in contemporary Cairo, with a melange of flamboyant, unlikely characters, Egyptian and expatriate, who seem to have stepped out of A Thousand and One Nights.
“Gretchen McCullough’s latest book captures the magic and absurdity of the city and its people with a humour few local writers have managed to achieve” —Egypt Today
“Written in prose both blunt and elliptical, the dozen tales form a gritty yet empathetic collage of lives on the precipice of contemporary America.” —Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times
Looking Both Ways is a collection of interlinked essays that explores family, language, politics, identity, and culture, often with a touch of humor.
In White Carnations is a collection of 101 tales that sketch life inside and outside Syria during the revolution that began in 2011.
The collection of short stories harkens back to such classic authors like Franz Kafka, George Orwell, William Golding, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury and Anthony Burgess.
The Dusk Visitor is a warning from the Middle East: We are Next. The Dusk Visitor is one of the few works of literature by a Syrian on the subject of the Syrian Civil War, the Assad government, and the authoritarian style of other Arab dictators.
A collection of short stories about identity, hope, and redemption of fierce and flawed women rebuilding their lives in the wake of war.
