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Jul 5, 2024 | 
themarkaz.org | Mohamed Farag |Nada Faris
In this age of surveillance and heightened security (of the lack thereof), the more things change, the more they become strange, or so finds the confused narrator of this Kafkaesque adventure in a developing country. Mohamed FaragTranslated from the Arabic by Nada FarisThe last time I was here, the building was still old, just as I had always seen it — dirty and dilapidated.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
I reached out recently to my American friend, Max Stossel, an award-winning poet and filmmaker who was named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. I was particularly interested in Max's emphasis on the audio-visual dimensions of poetry. Moreover, I wanted to learn more about the intersection between poetry, technology, and various audiences receiving the work through today's social media platforms.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
Around the end of 2018, I partnered with Kuwaiti visual artist Maha Alasaker on a book: Women of Kuwait. Maha’s work focuses on fine art, fashion, and editorial photography, and her personal work engages with identity and cultural issues. Her art has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Vogue Arabia, Marie Claire, Lady Gunn, Material Girl, and others. She has also been featured in numerous exhibitions across New York City, London, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
Gail Carriger’s Soulless is the first installment of The Parasol Protectorate series. The events of the novel take place in an alternate Victorian history where vampires and werewolves contribute to the expansion of the Great British Empire. Her protagonist, Miss Alexia Tarabotti, is a twenty-six-year-old spinster who is part Italian and a full preternatural (a person who lacks a soul).
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
Q: The Unincorporated series takes a dramatic shift in the middle, ascribing a more central role to female characters. We know that capitalism does not care about gender, only profit. So what does unincorporation have in store for gender, especially in the light of reviving religious beliefs? A: Women coming to the fore in the Unincorporated universe was more a matter of evolution. Traditional war plays to men’s strengths of brute force and cold calculation.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
“One-on-One with Dani Kollin, co-author of the sci-fi sensation The Unincorporated Man.” Imagine that in three hundred years, technology defeats death, wars cease to exist, and the world’s populations unite under one belief. This is the world of Dani and Eytan Kollin’s The Unincorporated Man. The premise of their book consists of a potent capitalism that engraves its power onto human beings by turning them into stock value. The more successful the person, the more expensive their stock becomes.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
When I decided to pursue a career as a writer, my primary goal was to create stories that I personally enjoyed reading. At the age of 17, I developed a fondness for young adult fiction, which I would borrow from school libraries due to financial constraints. I was well aware, however, that I lacked the necessary skills and knowledge to write professionally at that time. Thus, recognizing this, I devised a ten-year plan to cultivate my writing abilities and broaden my understanding of the world.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
The first timeI was molestedI was eightHad hair that flowed smooth like a womaneyes hotter than firm breastshe couldn’t help himselfand he never hurt me was extragentle with each caress his fingers merelytrying to touch God’s breathcoursing through my innocencewho are we to judge menget raped too and likeeveryone they make mistakes dropdown on their knees in repentencebecause God forgives men their demonsso why won’t you? Isn’t that what you want to say to me?
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
The dead don’t knock on doors. They slide through windowsto watch football with old friends. When we are gatheredaround the television set,reclining on couches, or lying on carpets,resting bowls of nachos or carrotson stomachs or laps,we will feel, on occasion,the atmosphere changing color, thickening,the barely perceptible moisture of the dead is— perhaps — the only evidenceof their presence.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
medium.com | Nada Faris
Leave your allegiance out of it. I will not participate in your covenno matter how hard you try. For I was born from the womb of a barren mother,who doesn’t even know my name,but who has already preparedmy grave and mass. Tell me what you will gainfrom initiating me. I am allergic to instructions. And I have horrible aim. My toes cannot bear the scraping of cotton,and we both know how you value thatand silk and gold.
