Elmaz Abinader
Living with Opposition 3
What We Leave Behind 7
This House, My Bones 8
The Birds 10
Etel Adnan
from Transcendence 13
from The Arab Apocalypse 21
Saladin Ahmed
Ghazal 29
Over the Phone, One of Our Hero’s Close Personal
Homeboys Recounts Life in a College Town 30
The Third World Werewolf Speaks to Our Hero of
Life in the Financial Zone 30
Ibn Sina 31
Kazim Ali
The Black Madonna at Chartres 32
Journey 33
The Year of Summer 35
Gallery 35
Assef Al-Jundi
Flying 37
Nostalgic 39
Apprentice 40
Alise Alousi
Lipstick 41
Mayfly 42
What to Count 43
Lynndie’s Other Voice 44

Hedy Habra
Even the Sun Has Its Dark Side 93
Milkweed 97
Tea at Chez Paul’s 100
Marian Haddad
She Is Not the House of This Black Wing 102
Malfunctioning FLOWTRON 103
Resurrection 105
I have no history here 105
Suheir Hammad
Silence 107
exotic 111
First Writing Since 112
mike check 118
Sam Hamod
Dying with the Wrong Name 120
Lara Hamza
Advice for Marriage 130
My Mother Wore Miniskirts 130
Behind Locked Doors, Part I 131
Growing Up 131
On Eating 131
Nathalie Handal
The Warrior 132
The Combatant and I 133
The Blue Jacket 134
from The Neverfield 135
Samuel Hazo
Intifada 137
September 11, 2001 139
Just Words 140
After Arlington 142
The First Sam Hazo at the Last 143
The Mutineer 145
For Which It Stands 146