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 24, 2026
THE HUNGERING YEARS—An Excerpt
by Summer Farah
Etel, if I had known you in life instead of art I know we would have found places to disagree, but of one thing I am sure—we mourn together. We ask each other to live.
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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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