• Author: Mohamed Jaafar
• Publisher: Dar Fadaat
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Number of Pages: 140

In this collection, author Mohamed Jaafar captures stories from the heart of Algerian reality, with a fresh touch from one story to the next and a clear boldness in experimentation. What is striking about the stories in "Vanilla Flavored" is that the events are unpredictable, and the reader never knows what they are about to uncover, as if tampering with a time bomb, unsure of when it might explode in their face.

It is worth noting that Mohamed Jaafar is a novelist and short story writer from Algeria. His last short story collection, "The Invention of Pain," was longlisted for the Al-Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story.