‘Ghostly Faces’
This essay is from the Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
This essay is from the Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
“My river was always a Nile, / my patience, a wistful shore.”
James Montgomery on “Afterloss,” in the new issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
“May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation.”
The Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly is coming in three days — on April 30, 2025. Today, a poem from the issue in Wiam El-Tamami’s translation.
“On that day: I came home from school early. I didn’t find you, but I made an excuse for your absence, and sat, and waited.”