Lives In Pomegranate

Description

A Bedouin man in a drought-stricken future must roll the dice for his family’s most basic need. A physics professor skydives—her dark secrets unraveling as she plummets toward the Dead Sea. An Afghan chef’s rise in New York’s cutthroat culinary scene is fraught with sacrifice. A recent graduate hosts European classmates on a ski trip in a snow-covered future UAE. An analyst in a famine-threatened world fights to sound the alarm.

These eleven stories traverse fluid landscapes of identity, survival, and loss, navigating the intersections of imagined futures and present-day struggles. Al-Shaali reveals a world in flux, where environmental collapse and cultural erosion shape the lives of the marginalized. Lives in Pomegranate explores resilience, belonging, and the cost of existence.