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Two New Poems by Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib
Two New Poems By Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib Translated by Ibtihal Mahmood Marah Muhammad Al-Khatib is a student in data science in Gaza who is one of the laureates of ArabLit’s Summer 2025 Gaza Literary...
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‘My Father Chased the Free Bird’
This poem appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam. My Father Chased the Free Bird So Long, Feathers Began to Grow on Him By Marwan Ali Translated by...
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Five Poems by May Ziadeh
The following translations are from May’s first book, Fleurs de Réve, a collection of poems she wrote in French during her adolescence and early twenties. She published it in 1911 under the pen name...
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Three New Poems by Maysara Salah El-Din
These three poems come from Maysara Salah El-Din’s latest collection, Ibn Al-Subh (Son of the Morning). Ultimatum By Maysara Salah El-Din Translated by Dr. Yasmine Hussein I wish I had a paper plane...
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Three Poems from Gaza
What Darkness Holds By Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi O long night, were we not once friends? No—we were more than friends. You were shelter. You were born for silence, for slow breathing— not for this...
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A Football Chant for Egypt
For our Fall 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly, we ran several different football chants from countries across the region. As editors Nashwa Nasreldin and Leonie Böttiger wrote: “The old adage that...
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In Memory: ‘Oh Stones Cloaked in Grief’
Oh Stones Cloaked in Grief In memory of the July 2025 massacres in Sweida, Syria[1] By Louai Alhenawi Translated by Ghada Alatrash Oh, Stones[2], cloaked in grief, bearing witness to what has...
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New Poetry in Translation: Sayed Abolela’s ‘Cinema’
This poem is from a forthcoming collection, مصمم معارك, to be published by the General Egyptian Book Organization. Tomorrow, a discussion with Sayed Aboulela about his path as a colloquial poet....
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Poems of Whiskey and Regret by Rasha Omran
These two poems by Rasha Omran — along with two others — originally ran in the ROAD issue of ArabLit Quarterly. We share them now as part of Women in Translation Month. Two Poems by Rasha Omran...
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The Red Suns, Purple Moons, and Gun-Carrying Mice of Syrian Poet Da’ad Haddad
For #WiTM, we’re revisiting this piece on Syrian poet Da’ad Haddad and the worlds conjured in her poetry. Originally published in 2023, it returns as part of our August series celebrating women...
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