Category Archives: Article

‘Have You Seen Afifa, Have You Seen Latifa?’ Recovering History Through Folktales

Posted on 2022/12/18 by alialjamri

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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Reflections on ‘Silence is a Sense’

Posted on 2022/09/12 by alialjamri

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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RAQABIYYA, or Neck Tax

Posted on 2021/04/15 by alialjamri

RAQABIYYA, or Neck Tax Granny, chewing a date, transmits her soul, then presses it between the baby girl’s lips. “[They] suffer from the tyranny of their masters more keenly than language can express,” observes Captain Robert Taylor of the East India Companyas he passes … Continue reading →

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Review: The Arabic Prose Poem by Huda Fakhreddine

Posted on 2021/04/05 by alialjamri

I had the pleasure of discovering Huda Fakhreddine’s work a few months ago, just as I set myself the challenge to write more in Arabic. Her articles on the Arabic prose poem were insightful, and so I eagerly awaited her … Continue reading →

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