‘Do Not Reconcile’: From ArabLit Quarterly’s GRIEF
“May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation.”
Abdelrahman ElGendy
Why Did the Jumpers Leap? On ‘The Dissenters’
Why Did the Jumpers Leap? On Youssef Rakha’s The Dissenters By Abdelrahman ElGendy Once, on an unassuming Cairo afternoon in January 2011, an Egyptian generation was touched by a dream […]
‘Dialogue’: A Poem by Mostafa Ibrahim
A dialogue between the present and the absent, the living and the dead. In this poem, “The world’s always / a step ahead. I caught / myself laughing two days / ago, while you, my friend, / haven’t made it / one year under / the dirt.”