Dec 31, 2022BOOKS WE READ BY SWANA AUTHORS, 2022 (PART II)PART II Introduction The second part of the year brought changes for both of us — moving, grad school, new jobs; despite our day-to-days piling up with more required readings making the recreational slow down a little, we still have 28-ish SWANA books between the two of us. Same deal applies! These are…Books21 min readBooks21 min read
Jun 21, 2022BOOKS WE READ BY SWANA AUTHORS, 2022 (PART 1)Introduction We hit 50 book reviews!! As a treat, we are releasing another installment of the Summer & Samia listicle series that probably no one but us will read in its entirety! And that’s ok! But if you’ve ever been like “I would like to read more books by SWANA authors…Poetry48 min readPoetry48 min read
Dec 29, 2021Books We Read by Arabs in 2021Samia & Summer team-up once again for a silly little listicle… Introduction I’ve read a little over 50 books this year. I spent the first 2/3rds of it reviewing before I realized I actually hated doing it monthly because it interfered with Reading as a Hobby, which is allegedly my favorite…Books18 min readBooks18 min read
Aug 27, 2021THE BABY RE-IMAGINED (POETS EDITION)Samia Saliba & Summer Farah assign a poem to each track of Samia’s The Baby (2020) INTRO Through how many voices can we imagine our favorite songs? Samia’s debut The Baby was a perfect sad-girl blend of coming-of-age yearning mixed with a cheekiness at what dictates that act of growing…Samia10 min readSamia10 min read
Dec 17, 2020My Year in Books — 2020As of writing this, I’ve read 56 books in 2020. My original goal was 40, bumped up in the fall to 60 as I realized I was, in fact, going to finish the Sealey Challenge (a poetry book for each day of August). …Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Published inANMLY·Oct 20, 2020No one is named. They are assigned: A Review of Jessica Abughattas’s StripI come to Jessica Abughattas’s debut Strip as a fellow poet, a friend, and a Palestinian American from the Los Angeles county suburbs. Despite our many intersections, I feel our differences so distinctly in the way that I love her work. I am attached to this collection in the way…Review7 min readReview7 min read
