
in Translation
by Sara Elkamel
2025
“Absence Without Arms,” by Mona Kareem, Poetry Online
“Enter Military Songs,” “Enter Weapons Factories”, & “Enter Silence,” by Dalia Taha, The Yale Review
“Death of a Wind,” “Asylum,” & “I Forgot the Name of Gods,” by Sinan Antoon, The Dial
from “The Year of Small Museums,” by Asmaa Azaizeh, ArabLit
“The Senses,” by Mona Kareem, Mizna
2024
“New Habits,” by Farah Barqawi, Mizna Online
“Artifice,” “Family Museum,” “Forgetting,” “A Letter to Asrar,” & “A Death,” Copper Nickel
“Kinetics,” by Mona Kareem, Diode
“A Weeping Window,” “Heart of Despair,” by Mona Kareem, Feminist Formations
Poetry by Mona Kareem and Aya Nabih, Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets in Translation (Litmus Press, 2024)
2023
“Nights,” by Mona Kareem, POETRY
“The National Library,” by Mona Kareem, Northwest Review
“Journey to the Catacombs of the Heart,” “Remains,” “Cities Dying Every Day,” by Mona Kareem, The Markaz Review
“Body of Light,” & “The Sublime,” by Mona Kareem, Hayden’s Ferry Review
“Mona Kareem,” & “The Golden Days,” by Mona Kareem, Poetry Northwest
“A Vase and A Moon,” “Relics of the Soul,” & “The Word's Window,” by Mona Kareem, HEAT
“Dust,” “Instant,” “Tenderness,” & “Sargon,” by Mona Kareem, Poetry London
“The Return,” by Mona Kareem, The Yale Review
“Cancer,” & “Forms of Nausea,” by Aya Nabih, Modern Poetry in Translation
“Silent Films,” by Mona Kareem, Freeman’s
“Dead Lanterns,” by Mona Kareem, West Branch
2022
“A Walk,” “Departing Madness,” “Tribe,” “In Praise of Modernity,” “As Beautiful as a Notion,” & “Theories,” by Mona Kareem, Paperbag
“Leakage,” & “The Poet-Translator,” by Mona Kareem, The Los Angeles Review
“Genetics,” & “Insurgent Stone,” by Mona Kareem, The Arkansas International
“Let’s Pause the Music for a Little While,” by Aya Nabih, Nashville Review
“Room of Darkness,” by Mona Kareem, The Common
“Lot’s Wife,” by Mona Kareem, Poetry Daily
“A Man Familiar with Humanity,” by Mona Kareem, Samovar
“Above a Floor of Lament,” “Cosmic Thread,” & “Arresting a Poem,” by Mona Kareem, ArabLit
“A Tear,” “Blood on Timber,” “Rain’s Knife,” by Mona Kareem, The Los Angeles Review
“A Break for the Horizon,” “Weeping Wet with Silver,” & “Fragile Delights,” by Mona Kareem, 128 lit
“Quarantine,” by Mona Kareem, The Offing
“Resection,” “Complications of Love,” “Side Effects,” & “Deconstruction,” by Aya Nabih, ArabLit
“Final Barrenness,” “But I Always Lose,” & “Loneliness,” by Rana al-Tonsi, ArabLit
“Abracadabra,” “Words Don’t Come Easy,” & “Lot’s Wife,” by Mona Kareem, Asymptote Journal
“Perdition,” “Cities Dying Everyday,” & “Souvenirs,” by Mona Kareem, Modern Poetry in Translation
“The Migrant Poet Slaughters His Voice,” “My Body, My Vehicle,” “Cigarette of Light,” & “Happiness,” by Mona Kareem, Brooklyn Rail
“Hope Dissidents,” by Mona Kareem, Guernica Magazine
“Ants,” by Farah Barqawi, Whale Road Review