Zeena Faulk

‘A Poem from the World of Cats’ by Muthaffar al-Nawab

June 7, 2022

“A dark wind bellowed out destruction / as a sweet street kitty awaited nightfall”

From ArabLit Quarterly Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Ahmed Magdy Hammam, al-Jahiz, Ali Jaafar Al Allaq, Alice Holttum, ArabLit Quarterly, Burnaby Hawkes, Dima El-Mouallem, Duna Ghali, Enas Eltorky, Ghada Alatrash, Hilal Badr, Ibrahim Fawzy, Jonas Elbousty, Karima Ahdad, Katharine Halls, Layla AlAmmar, Madeline Edwards, Maheera Migdadi, Maisaa Tanjour, Michael Payne, MIRRORS, Mohamed Choukri, Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, Nawal Nasrallah, Nawara Belal, Qassim Majeed, Ra’ad Abdulqadir, Rasha Abbas, Reem Abbas, Rema Hmoud, Rym Jalil, Said Takieddine, Sara Abou Rashed, Shahd Alshammari, Shakir Mustafa, Zeena Faulk

Launching the MIRRORS Issue: Recovering Their Medieval Magic

March 15, 2022

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.

Fiction, Iraq Iraq, Muhammad Khudayyir, Zeena Faulk

New Iraqi Fiction: Muhammad Khudayyir’s ‘The Tunnel’

February 15, 2022

As the police closed in, the protesters began to retreat, individually and in groups.

Fiction, From ArabLit Quarterly, Iraq Zeena Faulk, Zuher Karim

Short Fiction: Zuher Karim’s ‘The Awakening of Abdulmonam’

January 10, 2022

“This is a confusing experience, not intended to be comical in any way, shape, or form.”

From ArabLit Quarterly Adania Shibli, Alexander E. Elinson, Ameer Hamad, Anam Zafar, ArabLit Quarterly, Becki Maddock, Daniel Behar, Farid Abdel Azim, Hajar Mahfoodh, Hatem Alzahrani, Hicham Rafik, Huda al-Daghfaq, Iraqi Shalash, Khadidja Bouchellia, Khaled Ahmed Youssef, Lameen Souag, Leonie Rau, Luqman Derky, Mahmoud Mostafa, Mina Ibrahim, Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Muhammad El-Hajj, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Nariman Youssef, Omar Ibrahim, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Yasmine Zohdi, Yassin Adnan, Zeena Faulk

On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly

September 16, 2021

“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.”