During dark times, we search for fragments of connection— Week 3 of Forged Kinship is here. Read this week’s 18 contributors who illuminate the paths between us: poetry, nonfiction, fiction & art shaped by grief, memory, rupture, and survival. https://t.co/QinG6wLrAc #Rowayat

Many thanks to Mohamed Seif El Nasr and Fatima Elkalay @Fatimawrites for their skillful and seamless translation of my short story “The Museum of Mistakes”, and to @RowayatEgypt for bringing it to publication. https://t.co/OWdfaP0MCq

Week Two of Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship is here. This week brings another powerful set of pieces—work that moved us to tears and continues to redefine what kinship means through rupture, war, grief & possibility. 🔗 https://t.co/BYwMEQ8yWl

Week Two of Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship is here. This week brings another powerful set of pieces—work that moved us to tears and continues to redefine what kinship means through rupture, war, grief & possibility. 🔗 https://t.co/BYwMEQ8yWl

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Issue 13: Forged Kinship is live. Read the first 17 pieces of the issue: Poetry, fiction, nonfiction & art—plus Rowayat's 2025 Summer Poetry Contest Winner & Shortlist (for the first time!). New work drops weekly throughout December: 🔗 https://t.co/QinG6wLrAc

Hello world , I am Belal. Before the war, I used to be known as an “Arabic calligrapher” Today I am in #Gaza and I never imagined that one day I will write on the corpse of an innocent child. He was killed by barbaric Israeli occupation missiles

“[We] have to be guardians of the Arabic language [...] before we give to the next generation.” Read Hoda Barakat's incisive take on authorial responsibility towards the Arabic language and unshackling minds from propaganda here:

Deadline extended! Submit to Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship by Nov 7, 2025 Open to: • Fiction • CNF / Nonfiction • Poetry & Flash • Comics • Art • Writing Central (craft, translation, pedagogy) 🔗 https://t.co/D7eqtdVjgo #Rowayat #ForgedKinship #CallForSubmissions

Deadline extended! Submit to Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship by Nov 7, 2025 Open to: • Fiction • CNF / Nonfiction • Poetry & Flash • Comics • Art • Writing Central (craft, translation, pedagogy) 🔗 https://t.co/D7eqtdVjgo #Rowayat #ForgedKinship #CallForSubmissions

In 1936, Palestinians rose against the British Mandate, igniting a struggle that still echoes today. PALESTINE 36, directed by Annemarie Jacir, tells the story of how it all began. Watch the official trailer now!

📣 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest Shortlist! • Aida Bardissi – Recipe for عيش بلدي • Haseeb Sultan – the soil under our house was once the Indus • Kimberly Gibson-Tran – Imago Dei • Paul Potts – i have • Ruaa Hassouna (tr. Alice S. Yousef) – Untitled

Well done, @NeustadtPrize.

📣 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest Shortlist! • Aida Bardissi – Recipe for عيش بلدي • Haseeb Sultan – the soil under our house was once the Indus • Kimberly Gibson-Tran – Imago Dei • Paul Potts – i have • Ruaa Hassouna (tr. Alice S. Yousef) – Untitled

I'm moderating the Q&A at the screening of this beautiful narrative, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU. Spanning 7 decades in a Palestinian family's life- starting before the Nakba, critics have called it “a modern masterpiece." Oct 21 in San Rafael at the Smith Rafael Film Center at 7pm.

Call for Submissions Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship Meet our Guest Editors: https://t.co/YCpSUEP5kW Genres: poetry, fiction, CNF, hybrid, art. 🗓 Sep 22–Oct 22, 2025 🔗 Submit: https://t.co/CWlL6QLBAP #ForgedKinship #Rowayat #CallForSubmissions

🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31stfor a chance to: • Win $500 • Be published in Rowayat’s Fall 2025 Issue (Issue 13) • Get a mentorship session with our poetry judge @SaraFarag

🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31stfor a chance to: • Win $500 • Be published in Rowayat’s Fall 2025 Issue (Issue 13) • Get a mentorship session with our poetry judge @SaraFarag

Rowayat 12 is here— Each piece a pulse. A memory through the dark. Poetry, CNF, fiction, translation—71 voices from SWANA & the Global South. We built this in love + devotion. Come Read. Come echo. 🔗 https://t.co/VTXZWAuTc0 #Rowayat #Echoes #SWANAvoices #LitMag #issue12

"...writing remains. Not because it is safe to write, and certainly not because there is time or quiet or shelter for it, but because without writing, there would be nothing left that resembles continuity. Words arrive not after the devastation but within it." -@AlaaQAlQaisi