From the RAIN Issue: Mohamed Makhzangi’s ‘The Water Cords’
2023-05-23
It will be a small miracle if you receive this letter of mine, which I’m writing on a day I skipped from our tour in the forest.Continue Reading
Launching the Spring 2023 RAIN Issue of ArabLit Quarterly: ‘Pouring All Night Long’
2023-04-03
Find the driving rhythm of rain, the prayers to make rain come (and leave), art, poetry, short stories and more in this issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Continue Reading
An Excerpt from Jan Dost’s ‘A Green Bus Leaving Aleppo’
2023-02-13
A Red Crescent flag fluttered from the small ambulance that arrived, parking beside the green bus where Abu Layla sat with the rest of the fighters and civilians and women and men and children. Continue Reading
‘Have You Seen Afifa, Have You Seen Latifa?’ Recovering History Through Folktales
2022-12-25
Every year, we run a special holiday gift on December 25. This year, it’s an essay from our most popular edition, the ArabLit Quarterly FOLK issue, Continue Reading
Goodbye, Hello: The BEGIN AGAIN issue of ArabLit Quarterly
2022-12-15
“And although beginnings have the better reputation, a beginning also serves to close off other possibilities. The ending, meanwhile, opens them up.”Continue Reading
‘Matters of National Football’
2022-12-10
In honor of today’s match, we’re running this essay from our beloved FOOTBALL issue, by Moroccan author Yassin Adnan, translated by Moroccan translator Hicham Rafik, with photographs by Moroccan photographer Omar Mesrar. Continue Reading
From the WEDDINGS Issue: ‘The Grim Symbolism of Weddings in Algerian Oral Literature’
2022-10-13
“Grim Symbolism” is one of the essays included in the Fall 2022 issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Continue Reading
A Poem from ALQ: Fowziyah Abu Khalid’s ‘Wedding’
2022-09-29
“I’ve been dreaming of a wedding since the splash of / the first wet ink”Continue Reading
With Joy & Glad Tidings: The WEDDINGS Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
2022-09-25
Performers and performance are also central to weddings, both for their ability to entertain and to temporarily violate social norms. Continue Reading
