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If I Must Starve & Other Poems
If I Must Starve If I must starve, let it be with dignity in my children’s eyes, not…
Making the Miraculous Visible: Shirin Abedinirad on Mirrors, Landscape, and the Art of Presence
For Rowayat’s fourteenth issue, we could imagine no better guide to its theme than Shirin Abedinirad. The Iranian…
Three Bastards
Road N13 is closed because of snow. It’s been coming down all night, so thick that cars…
The 168
The voices of 168 girlsJoin in the dust.Their chorus shuddersThe red tulipsBorn from bombed earth.
Blood, Death and Hope
In Fiqh, Islamic jurisprudence, menopausal women are literally women who have reached the age of “despair.”…
Alter Ego & Declaration | Manifesto
Alter Ego O God You Merciful Dishonorer — some entity hidden deep within my body is demanding its…
Umm al-Dunya & Jummah in The Women’s Prayer Room
Umm al-Dunya I pack my bags, weep my goodbyes, and embark on the first voyage I’ll ever have…
Inshallah, my love
Days after my third round of IVF ended in failure, I let a friend of mine pull me…
buddy
My mother befriended an Indian ringneck parakeet in the front lawn at dawn around the time my father…
hiccups
you always take two steps at a time on stairs—one two one two oneyou have yet to cross…