Friday Finds: Mazen Maarouf’s ‘Portion of Jam’
Dad comes home holding a little plastic portion of jam like the ones they give the patients in the hospital where he works. He holds it up in the air and says, ‘See the jam?’
Poetry
Sunday Submissions: Dardishi Zine’s Issue 1
Dardishi is looking for art and writing by Arab and North African womxn on the theme of “family” for their inaugural zine
This March in Scotland: ‘Palestinian Poetry Showcase’
This March, the Scottish StAnza Festival promises a Palestinian Poetry Showcase.
Sunday Submissions: HALAL Fanzine, Issue 2
The call will be open until April 17, 2019.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Rusted Radishes’ Seeks Internet Features
The literary magazine Rusted Radishes is looking for submissions “from anyone who has a relationship with Lebanon or the MENA region”.
Friday Finds: ‘Damascus 1986’
The key’s clang
the sun I called from the windowsill
the brief time of fondness
none of it were mine
Christmas Gift: 6 Poems by Asmaa Azaizeh
Every time we stopped in the shade of a tree,
one of us would shout: “Here we are!”
A fantasy mightier than mountains.
Wadih Saadeh Wins Argana Prize: 10 Celebratory Poems
The judges of this year’s Argana Prize cited Saadeh’s unique achievements and contribution to “bringing about a change in the path of the Arab prose poem.”
Friday Finds: ‘The Maghreb After Orientalism’
b2o: an online journal — an online-only, free-to-read, peer-reviewed journal published by the boundary 2 editorial collective — recently published a special issue, “The Maghreb After Orientalism.”