Justine Youssef and Duha Ali, 'Kohl', 2018, 3 ch. video installation, 4 minutes and brass bowls, kohl, sandstone and clay vessels, video still view.

Poets of Arab Heritage


BAYT Editorial: Zeina Hashem Beck

Artwork:
10 Works by Justine Youssef

Essays:
In Search of Living Rooms Filled With Laughter: On Belonging as a British-Lebanese in a Time of Revolution by Nasri Atallah
The Arabic Poem that Jumped the Fence by Huda Fakhreddine
Reel Bad Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Dear White, It’s OK to be white by Ghassan Hage

Chapbook:
bil 3arabi: 6 poems by Sara Saleh
Selected by Cordite Poetry Review

And 42 new poems selected by Zeina Hashem Beck:

Big Song
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Ain Al Hasouda
by Rasha Al Duwaisan
From Istanbul
by Nusaiba Imady
:3
by Nathalie Handal
pH
by Farah Chamma
Seismic Shifts
by Elmaz Abinader
Ticker
by Fady Joudah
love poem for the newly out
by Zeyn Joukhadar
Skyping My Mother
by Philip Metres
A Refugee Grows Old
by Zeina Azzam
Porch Haiku
by Hayan Charara and Marwa Helal
Substitute
by Glenn Shaheen
Like Smoke Does
by Threa Almontaser
Losing It
by Jessica Abughattas
antigone 4
by Fargo Tbakhi
Looking for Shade in Beirut
by Ahmad Almallah
Eminent Domain Tanka
by Deema Shehabi
Dream Where I find My Roof
by Diane DeCillis
Fish in Bushwick
by Kamelya Youssef
Ramadan, 1979
by Majda Gama
Journey
by Lisa Suhair Majaj
apology
by George Abraham
Understanding
by Chad Abushanab
Spring Fragment
by Leila Chatti
Being-Nothingness
by Zaina Alsous
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 94: BAYT
Released: 5 December, 2019