Story · Al-Araby Al-Jadeed · earlier Avaye Tabeid appearance
Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Arabic story
English finding aid for the Arabic title; the source publication is in Arabic.
Asif cycles through moonlit palm groves under the threat of patrols while his wife waits awake for his return.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Al-Araby Al-Jadeed · earlier Avaye Tabeid appearance
- Source date
- 15 February 2025 · earlier appearance Summer 2023
- Published language
- Arabic · translated from Persian
- Translation
- Mohammad Hamadi
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the named source. The literary text remains with its original publication.
Reading orientation
Asif’s journey is shaped by the weight of his load, narrow paths and the danger of encountering a patrol. Palm trees are familiar presences along the route. The narrative also turns towards his wife, awake under the same moon and imagining what a gunshot could mean. Source 2
Moonlight makes the landscape visible without making it safe. Water, bodily exhaustion and the bicycle’s movement link practical labour to the household’s waiting. The closing image returns gunpowder to the palm grove, giving the title’s two elements a meeting place inside the story. Source 2
Publication and language
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed dates this Arabic publication 15 February 2025 and explicitly credits translation from Persian to Mohammad Hamadi. Avaye Tabeid 34 printed an Arabic appearance in Summer 2023, with a matching named translation credit. Its Abadan 1980 dateline is distinct from both publication dates. Source 1 · Source 3
Sources & credits
- Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Arabic story · publication
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed · earlier Avaye Tabeid appearance. 15 February 2025 · earlier appearance Summer 2023. Arabic · translated from Persian. By Ghazi Rabihavi. Translation credited to Mohammad Hamadi.
- Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Arabic story · reading evidence
Asif cycles through moonlit palm groves under the threat of patrols while his wife waits awake for his return. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.
- Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Avaye Tabeid 34
Arabic story on printed pages 226-230 in Summer 2023, with a named translation credit and Abadan 1980 dateline. The translator’s name is also romanised Mohammad Hammadi.