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Hide and Seek – Poem in ‘Afkar 9 Fikra’
Afkar 9 Fikra is a new zine coming out of Liverpool for Arabs in the diaspora and I was lucky to be part of the first issue, which launched with a whole markers market by Arabs! I unfortunately wasn’t able … Continue reading
The Legend of the Looms
The Legend of The LoomsAli Al-Jamri | Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery | 1 February – 8 March 2025 | FreeCommissioned by the Arab British Centre as part of As We Are, Might Have Been, and Could Be, in partnership with … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibitions, film, history, Poetry, textiles, weaving
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Crisis of Humanity – Poem
The following poem was first published by Manchester City of Literature on 18 Dec 2024, the International Day of the Arabic Language. The Arabic text follows the English. You can read it along with City of Literature’s statement on the … Continue reading
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2 New Poems about Loss
Young Identity’s latest collection is out: No Disclaimers Volume 2. I’m in it, and you can buy it here: https://www.youngidentity.org/shop YI’s book features two of my poems. Asked for poems about loss, I submitted two related to my the losing … Continue reading
Jan – June 2023 Roundup
It’s been a good first half of the year. 2023 has not been quite as busy as 2022, but that was intentional – after three very full years with nearly constant activity since 2020, when I was part of BBC … Continue reading
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Aug-Dec 2022 Roundup
It has been another busy 6 months. As with my last roundup, my quiet is usually due to teaching (they said it’d quieten down after the first year… hmm) but here are some highlights. Most of this has been performance-heavy … Continue reading
‘Have You Seen Afifa, Have You Seen Latifa?’ Recovering History Through Folktales
This article was originally published in ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK, in December 2021. The issue (and all the back catalogue up to the latest issue) can be purchased on Gumroad. A year since publication, and on the International Day for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Lit Quarterly, Bahrain, Folk, Poetry, translation
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Reflections on ‘Silence is a Sense’
I: Fear and Expression Let me begin with a quotation, not from the book I’m about to consider but from another it called to my mind: In the fearful years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months in prison … Continue reading
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The Story of Nabih Saleh
I visited Bahrain for the first time in too many years this summer. On one day, we did a tour of historic mosques in the islands, visiting the resting places of Sheikh Maytham Al-Bahrani (Mahooz), Emir Zaid bin Sohan (Malchiyya), … Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, Muhammad Ali Al-Nasiri, Nabih Saleh, translation
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Jan-July 2022 Roundup
It feels like a very long time since any posts have come up here – and indeed, it’s because it has been. It’s been an incredibly busy year. I’ve completed my first year of teacher training (got my QTS, but … Continue reading
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