| Editor's Welcome | 2 |
| Contents | 6 |
| Faïza Guène - Men Don't Cry | 8 |
| Ibrahim al-Koni - The Scarecrow | 24 |
| Chapter III - The Scarecrow | 27 |
| Chapter VII - Wantahet | 38 |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun - Ablation | 58 |
| Chapter III - The Decision | 61 |
| Chapter IV - The Operation | 69 |
| Chapter V - Depression | 73 |
| Alima Hamel - Lyrics & Poems | 88 |
| Zaher Omareen - Tales of the Orontes River | 108 |
| Blood Brothers | 111 |
| The Birthmark | 119 |
| Najat El Hachmi - The Foreign Daughter | 126 |
| György Spiró - Captivity | 150 |
| Georgi Gospodinov - The Physics of Sorrow | 196 |
| Prologue | 199 |
| The Bread of Sorrow | 201 |
| A Past-time Machine | 205 |
| Sergei Lebedev - Oblivion | 216 |
| Catherine McNamara - Astragal | 236 |
| Per Højholt - Auricula | 250 |
| Vasyl Lozynsky - Five Poems | 272 |
| ABOUT THE AUTHORS & WORKS | 282 |
| A Note on the Artwork | 294 |
| Acknowledgments | 296 |