‘Romeo and Juliet,’ by Fawwaz Haddad
At the recent Doha launch of ArabLit Quarterly’s Spring 2026 The Fall of Eternity, co-editors Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam spoke with Georgetown University-Qatar professor Youssef Haddad about literature, Syria, and the work of imagining a path forward. Today, we share a short fiction from the issue that attempts part of that re-imagination.