“This issue, our last of the year, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral, anti-professional, transgressive, strange, and fantastical. In it, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins, as Alaa Murad writes, ‘refuse to be erased.'”
Read more“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
Read moreBetween Two Islands is an evening of poetry and conversation, exploring the relationship between Bahrain, Britain and the British Bahrainis caught with a foot on either island, co-produced by guest editor of ALQ WINTER 2021, Ali Al-Jamri.
Read moreIf Arabic is a poetic language, what poetry do Arabic-speaking diasporas need to know to understand their identities?
Read more
“If my tongue was cut, / let it grow back and call out ‘Jamri’”
Read more