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Texts After the Screaming
Texts After the Screaming نصوص ما بعد الصراخ By Nour Balousha Translated by the author Below are two poems I wrote while the genocide continues. They are after I stopped screaming, not because it...
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Song for Bassam Saba
This poem originally appeared in our 2021 SONG issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Song for Bassam Saba By Walid Daou Translated by Suneela Mubayi Translator’s note: Bassam Saba (1958-2020) was the founder of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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‘The South, The Last Day’: A Poem for Amal Khalil
The South, The Last Day To Amal Khalil By Abbas Beydoun Translated by Yasmine Khayyat The South could be the last land, The last testament, perhaps the last sip The last lira, the last medicine, the...
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New Poetry in Translation: ‘Obituaries’
This poem, by award-winning author Osama Esber, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam. If you’re in Berlin, join us for a launch event on May 3, 2026....
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Rasha Omran: ‘I Want to Smile’
This poem, by award-winning author Rasha Omran, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam. If you’re in Berlin, join us for a launch event on May 3, 2026....
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New Poetry in Translation: ‘Who Am I?’
Who Am I? By Ramzi Salem Translated by the author Who am I? the birds ask me circling above my head, dancing in loops with the wanderers, staring into the hollows of my eyes, sinking into their bright...
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New Poetry: Maha Al Aswad’s ‘Death in Six Images’
This poem is an extra from the Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly, available now at Gumroad, ArabLit.org/Shop, and elsewhere. Also: Sign up for our weekly poetry newsletter at...
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Mahmoud Darwish: ‘Till my End and Till Its End’
Each Mahmoud Darwish Day (March 13), share new work by or about Darwish (March 13, 1941 – August 9, 2008), one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Till My End and Till Its End By Mahmoud...
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Bassma Sheikho’s ‘Scream’
This poem, by award-winning author Bassma Sheikho, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam. Scream By Bassma Sheikho Translated by Maisaa Tanjour and...
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From ‘My Butterfly That Does Not Die’
Refaat Al Areer had set the scene, declaring, “If I must die,” and Alaa Al Qatarawi’s sorrow metamorphosed into a butterfly that perseveres. She writes, “If I die, my butterfly does not die.” My...
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