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"When we are a thousand miles away from poetry, we still participate in it by that sudden need to scream—the last stage of lyricism." --Emil Cioran

4 Again, this year No one turns My heart's handle. 5 This time I will not open doors or windows I will let the angels escape Through the keyhole. from "Absence Without Arms" by Mona Kareem منى كريم in my translation, just out on poetry.onl! poetry.onl/read/mona-sara…

"Hungry, we split a large fish in silence. He pulled a scale out of his mouth before it could choke him. I kissed him, and I left before the sun could sink into the unknown." - in my translation, from memoir by Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh in ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social! arablit.org/2025/03/10/fro…

We're proud to share the shortlisted pieces from the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. In Sara Elkamel’s poem, the speaker examines aspects of her life as touched by her mother's. This year’s prize is open for entries until 30 June. wasafiri.org/content/becaus…

200 people killed in a new wave of massive Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.

If I die, I am not a number, I am a planet in itself, I have dreams and ambitions that I wanted to achieve. Don't forget me in your prayers and keep talking about me

Today, I met a woman holding three small children as she evacuated yet again. She told me it’s probably her 30th time evacuating. Her husband, parents, and siblings have all been killed, and she now finds herself alone with young children, desperately searching for shelter and

❤️❤️❤️ read Dalia Taha's poem here: arablit.org/2025/03/26/ent…

"I lick open the mouths of caves because of my mother. I translate the wind because of my mother. Everywhere I go I make a temporary mosque because of my mother." You can read my poem "Because of My Mother" in Wasafiri! wasafiri.org/content/becaus…

"Enter Wrist Pain is one of three poems by Dalia Taha in my translation, published bilingually in The Dial Magazine this week! thedial.world/articles/liter…

Thank you so much to ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social for publishing this poem by Dalia Taha in my translation, as part of the GRIEF issue.

"Sadness is the only thing that doesn't have a shadow." -- Victoria Chang

"The master of the night is dread." -- Anne Carson

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"A hand’s memory is ostensibly sharp. How could it forget Waving to everyone else As they left?" - from my translation of Rasha Alqasim's poem "Things Unrelated to Loneliness" just out in The Dial thedial.world/articles/liter…

Motherhood and its Ghosts US-Canadian edition - May 2025. Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger , Published by Transit Books, Sterling Lord Literistic, @szilmolnar.

“Cairo is at the root of most of the work I write, I think—its dust, its excess, its decapitated trees.” Sara Elkamel for our #10Questions, available on our Substack: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/10-questions…

Now on Mizna Online: Five poems by Dalia Taha, translated by Sara Elkamel. Palestinian poet and playwright Dalia Taha builds a refuge for a poetry exhausted after millennia-long encounters with pain and conflict. Read more: mizna.org/mizna-online/f…