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.
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Summer Reads: Rym Jalil’s ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’
“Every day I lie and say / I know this place. / My mother’s kitchen / brims with afflictions / I must pretend to befriend it / we all know it can have only one master / from its beginning to its end”
New Poetry: Rym Jalil’s ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’
“Every day I lie and say / I know this place. / My mother’s kitchen / brims with afflictions / I must pretend to befriend it / we all know it can have only one master / from its beginning to its end”
From the Archives: ‘Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz’
In honor of the “Kitchen” issue of ArabLit Quarterly, a re-run from 2016, about the history of sharkasiyya, a dish important in Mahfouz’s Palace Walk. This piece also ran on kitchening […]
‘THE KITCHEN’ Issue: Food Fictions and Poetry, Family Histories, Table Manners & More
The Summer 2021 issue of ArabLit Quarterly is available in print and digital formats.