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Chip Rossetti

Chip Rossetti is an Arabic–English translator and book publisher. His published translations include Sonallah Ibrahim’s Beirut, Beirut, Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia and Magdy El Shafee’s Metro: A Story of Cairo. His translations have appeared in the White Review, Asymptote, Banipal and Words Without Borders.

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Fiction | Issue 154 padlock
Fiction | Issue 154 padlock

The Scarecrow

Diaa Jubaili & Chip Rossetti

‘Just at the time of the ceasefire between Iraq and Iran in 1988, an infantry platoon discovered that they were in a minefield.’

Translated from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti.

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