September 3, 2025
Old Song: a New Poem by Nima Hasan
by Nima Hasan
I love you— Force the city to hear it out loud.
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August 7, 2025
“the tart air from Damascus”—New Syrian Poetry
by M. Hakim
In this debut poetry publication by Syrian-American mathematician, musician, and writer M. Hakim, I am reminded of the ways grief acts on language in the most intimate details. In our exchange for editing the poem, Hakim described the ways punctuation is governed not by traditional grammar, but by associations of grief: sentences pairing with each other like ghosts to former inhabitations, spectral residues of once-restricted sites like Qasioun, the gifting of an oud, and the speculative...
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July 28, 2025
“I Bequeath Life to You, for We Die without Life Knowing Us”—Nima Hasan Writing from the Ends of the Homeland
by Nima Hasan
Compiled and edited by Rania Jawad, translated by Malaka Shwaikh On March 2, 2024 Nima Hasan wrote: I believe there is some secret in the elements of Gaza that makes us cling to a life that was never a life. I have always tried to keep an eye on death, making plans to distract it, to make it wait, so that it would get bored and leave what remains of me, my remains. We are all remains here. It is only the angle from which the photograph is taken that determines whether we are...
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