March 5, 2026
Uncrafted #5: An Interview with Zaina Alsous
by Hazem Fahmy
Craft is honed or realized through repetition: we are what we do, among and again, in writing and in life. Craft is relevant insofar as it advances the political and philosophical traditions we are rooted in, ideally of the people against those who seek to extract, exploit, and dominate.
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February 4, 2026
Uncrafted #4: An Interview with Rasha Abdulhadi
by Hazem Fahmy
The literary terrain is a site of struggle, but never merely representationally. Much as both rightwing and liberal institutions would love to have us believe, the production of literature does not exist outside of the vicious political economy of the United States. It is not enough to point to this or that institution being materially or rhetorically complicit in this country’s various atrocities–though that is certainly an urgent aspect of the struggle–but rather to question: what kind...
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January 9, 2026
Uncrafted #3: An Interview with Farid Matuk
by Hazem Fahmy
In a literary landscape where institutional hegemony is rarely challenged, it is easy to forget that poetry as a practice and tradition cannot be encapsulated by the university writing program or the prestigious journal. It is easy to forget that publishing itself is but one avenue with which to engage with and produce literature, and that a literary practice in service of collective liberation will need to go beyond the limited bounds of a literary economy. In our conversation on the...
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