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5 FOUR EMIRATI POETS 6 Nujoom al-Ghanem – Five Poems, translated by

Khaled al-Masri and Allison Blecker 11 Ahmed Rashid Thani – Five Poems, translated by

Sinan Antoon 15 Khulood al-Mu’alla – Seven Poems, translated by

Rasheeda Plenty and the author 19 Khalid Albudoor – Four Poems, translated by John

Peate TRAVELLING TALE 23 Youssef Rakha – Automotive Monologues ARAB AMERICAN AUTHORS – page 34 36 Philip Metres – A Poem Home / Front 40 Gregory Orfalea – Prologue of the forthcoming novel

The Fiends 50 Mohja Kahf – A Poem Brenda Unbound 53 Patricia Sarrafian Ward – An excerpt from a novel-

in-progress dead boys 62 Fady Joudah – Three Poems 65 Elmaz Abinader – An excerpt from a forthcoming memoir The Water Cycle 72 Nathalie Handal – A poem Song Posts 76 SInan Antoon – Four poems, translated by the author 80 Assef al-Jundi – Two poems 83 Deborah al-Najjar – Flash Fiction No News 86 Kadhim al-Hallaq – An excerpt from a forthcoming novel, My One-Eyed Father and his Six Wives, translated by Ghenwa Hayek 96 Lisa Suhair Majaj – Five poems 100 Lawrence Joseph – A poem Parentheses 102 Dunya Mikhail – Three poems, translated by the poet with thanks to John Peate 106 Pauline Kaldas – A short story A Conversation 112 Deema Shehabi – Three poems

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