Song for Bassam Saba
This poem originally appeared in our 2021 SONG issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
From ArabLit Quarterly
Poems of Whiskey and Regret by Rasha Omran
These poems, translated by Phoebe Carter, are from Rasha Omran’s sixth collection, “A Secret Wife of Absence.”
‘My Father Chased the Free Bird’
“It is the free bird.”
Bassma Sheikho’s ‘Scream’
“No electricity tonight. / Boredom is about to kill me.”
Samar Yazbek’s ‘The Silent Night-Dwellers of Damascus’
This essay, by the extraordinary Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam.
Announcing the Launch of our Spring 2026 Issue: ‘SYRIA: Fall of Eternity’
“It is no easy task to tell the Syrian tale, one that is written—and still being written—in the midst of both darkness and light.”
From the KITCHEN: ‘Teita’s Bitter Orange Jam’
We are around 25% of the way toward our goal with our summer “Buy a Back Issue” campaign. This essay, by Egyptian author and food scholar Salma Serry, appeared in KITCHEN issue of the magazine.
On Alfeñique and Caring for the Dead
This essay is from the Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
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