Истории Middle-eastern

At sixteen, Saerina al-Hakim has spent her life crossing the deserts of the Qamari Empire alongside her father's renowned merchant caravan. Clever, sharp-tongued, and gifted at reading people, she expects to continue the family trade, not become a prize in the Sultan's harem. But when a chain of desperate lies and cruel misfortune places her before the empire's newly crowned Sultan, her future is no longer her own. Determined to marry for love rather than fight for a ruler's attention, Saerina refuses to play the deadly game of palace politics. Instead, she allies herself with the Sultan's most favored consort, believing that loyalty and obscurity are her safest path to freedom. She is wrong. Behind gilded walls and silken veils, every smile conceals an ambition, every kindness carries a price, and every whispered secret can cost a life. The skills that once made Saerina an exceptional merchant prove dangerously inadequate against seasoned courtiers, ambitious consorts, and royal schemers who have spent their lives mastering deception. And the greatest danger of all may be the Sultan himself. Intelligent, calculating, and impossible to ignore, he is unlike the tyrant she expected. The more fiercely Saerina resists him, the more their fates become entwined, drawing her deeper into a court where survival demands more than honesty - it demands power. In the palace where affection is a weapon and trust is the rarest currency, Saerina must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice before the game consumes her entirely.

UPDATE: 1/14/24 - Per reader request, I will turn this from a short story into a novella. It will be taken down soon and re-published! Despite years passing since Hasan moved his children from Québec to Amman, twenty-four-year-old Yazid still struggles to see passed his father's decision to leave his mother. As the firstborn, he attempts to take on more responsibility for his sisters, but one of them perpetually meets him headstrong. If there are three words Hasan would use to describe his son, they would be reckless, disagreeable, and unpredictable. For this reason, he entrusts his eldest daughter Aseel to care for the family, investing in her more than investing in Yazid. With his mother thousands of miles away, and his father unapproachable, the young man finds solace in injecting himself with needles of "amnesia" as he puts it, unaware that, with every memory he washes away, he grows in sin. On one lonely night, Yazid comes in contact with slithering dancers, swaying from side to side, whispering in his ear that there is only one true way to cleanse himself of his sins. Genre: General Fiction Themes: Suicide, substance abuse, anxiety

Tale of The Queen who chose Revenge over love,follow her as she discovers the power a Queen can achieve, Misunderstood,and Cruel. CW! All the images used in this story do not belong to the creators,They are saved from pinterest and belong to their rightful owners.

[TJZ'S EXPANDED VERSION IS NOW AVAILABLE IN MY PROFILE!] Believed to be created by the founder of Zecaj, the Jewel of Opulence is said to curse whoever possesses it with endless riches beyond their wildest dreams. Desperate to get his hands on more fortune to aid a brewing war, Sultan Shahrayar, the kingdom's cunning ruler, calls his people far and wide with a declaration: the one who presents him with the mythical artifact shall be rewarded with a tower of gold. * * * In the lowly province of Klalasha, Badriya bint As-Sahra is sick of piling up camel dung and picking people's pockets for a living. But she can't do anything else unless she wants to rot in the streets and die. When she hears the sultan's decree, she jumps at the chance to become rich in the easiest way possible. And perhaps get a title for herself to prove that women are more than just slaves and child-bearers. But, as Badriya would learn the hard way, searching for an object that may not exist is proving harder than it should be. With other, more resourceful competition and a handsome stranger distracting her, she will have to use her wits and skills to achieve her goal or risk losing something even greater than herself. -- Featured in @retold, @WattpadFantasyPH, @StoriesUndiscovered, @Fantasy, @antiheroesgalore, @dangerouslove, @classicauthors, @WattpadExplorer, @WattpadAsianFantasy, @WattpadESL, @Alt-U and @mythandlegend Book graphics by the amazing @Dayisdemigod and @Lueur_laVespine! | 30,000 - 35,000 words. First, rough draft. |

Asad is an American Muslim who travels to Iraq as he tours the Middle East. While taking a taxi to a hotel, Asad saves a woman who was about to jump off a bridge. Not long, a Sheik claiming to be her Wali (guardian) quickly whisk her away. Feeling obligated to check on the well being of the distressed woman, Asad decides to track her down. After successfully locating the Sheik, Asad discovers the so called religious leader has been prostituting women, through Muk'tah marriages (temporary marriage).

The story of an Arab woman fed up with Arab men. Etc.

Two friends growing up in the American Midwest, one Chinese-American the other, Turkish-American, have their lives turned upside-down by the 9/11 attacks. They struggle to come to terms with what it means to be American in a world where they never quite fit in.

Jewel is the sheltered mermaid princess of the troubled undersea kingdom of Reddia. Derin is a poor, orphaned merman with a flair for storytelling. This is their romantic, magical adventure, told in alternating perspectives. A loose mermaid-themed retelling of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp set in the same vibrant mermaid universe as The Siren Queen and The Servant Girl and The Sea Prince, although it can also be read as a stand-alone novella.

"okay thats it, i'm making a poc fancast book."

There lived a handsome prince engaged to the most beautiful woman in the world. Despite her beauty, she failed to capture the prince's heart. Instead, the prince fell for a rather average woman who also captured the heart of the cold, Second Prince. Blinded by jealousy, the beautiful woman was eventually killed by the Second Prince. The lesson of this story emphasizes that looks aren't everything, and what really matters is the 'true beauty' inside a person's heart. Yeon-Woo is a middle aged woman in her late 30s. After she passes away from a plane incident with her loving husband, she wakes up as Celine, the beautiful woman who is fated to die. As Yeon-Woo rewrites her story, she learns how to heal and love again. DISCLAIMER: although the story is mine, the art was not done by me!

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When playing games with emotions, submerging yourself with crazy party goers, and being placed among strange surroundings just to spark any type of feeling starts to wear off after years, Aliyah is left wondering how to finally confront her bottled up emotions. Putting a facade to fit the image people have of her is not something new to her. Neither is hurting on the inside while shining a bright smile, in fact at this point it's second nature to her. Not knowing how to cope with the feelings she thinks she isn't allowed to feel in the first place will only end badly as she just recently beings to acknowledge. Through an adventure of growing up, realizing people's true colors, and making new friends Aliyah is determined to make some change in her life. Even if it means looking into a mirror for the first time to find a husk of a human frame staring back at her.

A short story....

🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🖼🖼🖼🖼🖼🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨 Kavan Raksha a 27 year old, is a world famous painter, he was a prodigy who conducted nothing but the best. He was wealthy and respected. Except he had been through many struggles to achieve his billionaire status and present state. Ocean Reed is a busy woman, who has a child to care for. Being 22 years old, and barely being able to see her son, takes a toll on her life. The only thing that keeps her stable is her religion and her constant drive to be something better. A meeting between a industry and a painter causes plates between these two to shift. And a painting is etched by their love and sorrow, as they prepare for a battle of love with their paint and souls, a truly remarkable masterpiece.

Life isn't an easy place and she's known that for her whole life. Every time they got on a plane, she knew that she would have to be a mature person when she steps out of the plane. Immigration is a difficult choice that our ancestors made for us to be safer. Read this story to get an inside look on how a system that seems so glorified is in reality the most humiliating. An 11 year old Egyptian girl is headed on a journey to a place every Arab dreams of going to, Canada. The only thing she knows about North America is basketball, and that's what she wants to do there. She doesn't know what the pains and stresses of an immigrant are yet, but she's excited to embark on a journey to a safer place where she can guarantee that her life will be better. Will it though? -BEING UPDATED!!

when the going gets hard, remember ur melanin is beautiful and ur culture is rich

A thief in medieval Arabia learns a painful lesson.

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A group of middle eastern teens living in America is already a huge struggle . After a terrible tragedy, their high school gets shut down and they are forced to attend the near private school for the rich and privileged. But will their sophomore year go smoothly, or will everything begin to fall apart?