Egyptian Mahraganat and Alexandrian trap are the music of our world cataclysm. High pitched interludes, emotional bravado and theatrical machismo make for an entrancing musical experience. Thanks @DiefallahMariam for your constantly spot-on music recs. youtube.com/watch?v=3ULUoh…

My interpretation of the last season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (spoiler alert). The Void represents socialism/communism and a collapse of aesthetics & American conceptions of socializing around labor. The ending says the 1% would rather live in a perpetual bourgeois space than the VOID.

Friends, the ten year anniversary issue of Asymptote Journal is out! It has some riveting poetry by Najwan Darwish (trans from Arabic) and a reflection on the history of Granta by its former editor John Freeman! Check it out :)

Friends, I interviewed the wonderful Karim Kattan, a Franco-Palestinian writer for Asymptote Journal - His novel, Le Palais des deux collines, came out in January! We talk love language, belonging and the many crafts of writing. asymptotejournal.com/blog/2021/02/0…

Hi Friends, been off twitter for a month due to work. Here's the Around the World with Asymptote Journal for this quarter. In it, I highlight @zeinabeck exciting publishing news ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social spring issue and Sawad Hussain latest translation! asymptotejournal.com/blog/2021/03/2…

‘Engineers began drilling along our coastlines, their machines spreading like tentacles.’ Today we’re publishing new, mystic sci-fi from MK Harb (grungyflaneur), set in a desert and featuring a ghostly sea. thewhitereview.org/fiction/amwaj/

Happy to share that my short story, Amwaj, is published with the The White Review <3 Amwaj tells the tale of a city in the Arabian Peninsula where the sea disappears and the government pilots a holographic sea engineered by Huawei! Feels eerily close.

"There are some long, languid and even dangerous summers that Beirutis can never forget, and this is one of them." My new short story, The Summer They Heard Music, is out now with The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social - thoughts appreciated. themarkaz.org/the-summer-the…

In my latest short story, a man in Beirut claims he is the reincarnation of iconic Egyptian belly dancer, Tahiya Carioca. Malek and Careema join his "dance as healing" classes only to discover things are not what they seem. themarkaz.org/we-danced-a-st… The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social

🇱🇧As Beirut faces yet another heartbreaking chapter of war, I wrote a short story about the sweet don't give a fuckness of its people. 🍰💔 The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social 📍 Read "The Last Millefeuille in Beirut" here: themarkaz.org/the-last-mille…

I’ve made the literary migration to Substack. If you’ve been to Lebanon, you’ll know the magical fog of its near-empty villages. This short story imagines the last four who still remain in Hadchit. open.substack.com/pub/mkharb/p/t…