My Grandfather Hussein

As Eid al-Adha approaches, Literatur.Review (Opens in a new window) publishes Menaf Othman’s haunting short story “My Grandfather Hussein” from Rojava — because not every feast feels like a feast to everyone. Through the eyes of a Kurdish village boy waiting desperately for a pair of shoes his poor father may never bring home, Othman tells a story about poverty, humiliation, childhood longing, and the quiet cruelties hidden beneath festive rituals. What begins as nostalgic memory slowly becomes a devastating portrait of exclusion, dignity, and class.
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
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