‘A Poem from the World of Cats’ by Muthaffar al-Nawab
2022-06-07
“A dark wind bellowed out destruction / as a sweet street kitty awaited nightfall”Continue Reading
Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic
2022-03-15
In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present. Continue Reading
New Iraqi Fiction: Muhammad Khudayyir’s ‘The Tunnel’
2022-02-15
As the police closed in, the protesters began to retreat, individually and in groups.Continue Reading
Short Fiction: Zuher Karim’s ‘The Awakening of Abdulmonam’
2022-01-10
“This is a confusing experience, not intended to be comical in any way, shape, or form.”Continue Reading
On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
2021-09-16
“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”Continue Reading
Fiction from the Magazine: Raghad Qasim’s ‘Hair or No Hair’
2021-08-23
“The no-hair phenomenon certainly has a backstory. “Continue Reading
Release Party for Winter 2020 ArabLit Quarterly: Dreams
2020-12-15
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.” Continue Reading
ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020, the CATS Issue
2020-09-21
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.Continue Reading
