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Bridgewater International Poetry Festival Fall 2020 Virtual Event

Reading: "Before the Morning After," (p.87) The Indianola Review (Volume 1, Winter 2015); "All Knowledge is Permissible," (p.72), & "Parachutes," (p.73), Nimrod Journal (Spring/Summer 2019: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa); "The Sky Where I Live Is Blue," (pp. 25-26), Fountain of Youth, Vine Leaves Press, 2016.
#TEDxAlShuwaikh

"Perception is Only an Ink Stain Away" describes how keeping a journal for more than a decade gave Nada a victim consciousness.

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre (JAAC), Kuwait. 
#TEDxCanadianUniversityDubai

"The Beauty of Friendship" provides tools that strengthen bonds between friends.

Canadian University Dubai, UAE. 
Voices and Verses

"Transference"

Kuwait Poets Society, Artspace, Kuwait
​Nov 16, 2016
The Divan Debates Closing Performance

"You Are the Frenzy"

The Divan, Al-Shaheed Park
Jun 2016
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Poetry

The Indianapolis Review (Issue 13: Summer 2020)
  • Saturn

Nimrod Journal (Spring/Summer 2019: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa)
  • All Knowledge is Permissible (p.72)
  • Parachutes (p.73)

The Beyond (Issue 2, February 2019)
  • Ode to Bipolar Disorder (p.7)

The Indianola Review (Volume 1, Winter 2015)
  • Before the Morning After (p.87)

Sukoon (Volume 3, Issue 2, Summer 2015)
  • Mother & the Lover’s Rock (p.48)
  • He Traveled on a Train (p.48)
  • Growing Up Solid in Kuwait (p.58)
  • Janus/Portunus (p.58)
        (Volume 2, Issue 2, Winter 2014)
  • Fortified Axioms (p.37)
  • Feed the Hungry (p.38)

Divergent Voices (Issue 1, Summer July 2014)
  • They Say in Egypt
  • The Myrrh of Pilgrimage
  • We Are Taught to Love Our Father

CityPages (Issue 53, May 2014)
  • Permit Me (p.108)
  • Before the Final Ten (p.108)
        (Issue 52, April 2014)
  • They Built a Mall (p.98)
  • Residue (p.98)

Brickplight (Issue 2, February 2014)
  • Dear Paul Gauguin
  • The Grandeur of Saturn

New Left Project (January 03, 2014)
  • Arab Poetry of the Hereafter

Fiction

PRINT ANTHOLOGIES
W.W. Norton & Company
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words of Fewer
  • "Twelve Years of Family Secrets" (p.152)
ONLINE
The International Writing Program: The University of Iowa
Silk Routes
  • A Melancholic Superhero

Six Sentences
  • Deliverance, Aug 1, 2009
SERIALIZED
CityPages (Fame in the Adriatic, a young adult novelette set in mid-16th Century Venice):
  • Chapter 1 – “It Would be Well to be Reputed Liberal,” Issue 39, March 2013 (p.68-69)
  • Chapter 2 – “My Lady of Forli,” Issue 40, April 2013 (p.62-63)
  • Chapter 3 – “Becoming Poor He Will Be Little Valued By Anyone,” Issue 41, May 2013 (p.76-77)
  • Chapter 4 – “Some Afraid of the Church, Some of the Venetians,” Issue 42, June 2013 (p.84-85)
  • Chapter 5 – “He Can Support Himself with his Own Resources,” Issue 43, July 2013 (p.78-79)
  • Chapter 6 – “All Yield Obedience to Others,” Issue 44, August 2013 (p.64-65)
  • Chapter 7 – “More Enslaved than the Hebrews,” Issue 45, September 2013 (p.100-101)
  • Chapter 8 – “Does Not Communicate His Desire to Anyone,” Issue 46, October 2013 (p.84-85)
  • Chapter 9 – “The Malady Has Become Incurable,” Issue 47, November 2013 (p.108-109)
  • Chapter 10 – “Seasoning the Dinner,” Issue 48, December 2013 (p.64-65)
  • Chapter 11 – “Bound by the Benefits they Confer as Much as by those they Receive,” Issue 49, January 2014 (p.76-77)
  • Chapter 12 – “When He is Either a True Friend or a Downright Enemy,” Issue 50, February 2014 (p.86-87)

Nonfiction

ESSAYS & ARTICLES
Fanack Chronicle of the Middle East & North Africa [ Netherlands ]
  • Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, Qatar’s Persecuted Poet, Oct 19, 2016
  • Kuwait’s Anglowaiti Music Scene, Aug 25, 2017
  • Qatar’s Massive Strides in Women’s Sports, Jun 1, 2016
  • The UAE Between Geo-Political Dangers and Happiness, Mar 10, 2016

Economic and Political Weekly [ India ]
  • Slam the Mike, Vol. 51, Issue No. 51, 17 Dec, 2016
  • Is Gender Equality an Oxymoron? Vol. 51, Issue No. 18, 30 Apr, 2016
  • Believing Is Seeing, Vol. 50, Issue No. 33, 15 Aug, 2015
  • Art as Commodity, Vol. 50, Issue No. 8, 21 Feb, 2015
  • A Vehicle of Escape, Vol. 49, Issue No. 43-44, 01 Nov, 2014
  • The Ugly Struggle, Vol. 49, Issue No. 38, 20 Sep, 2014
  • A Method to My Madness, Vol. 49, Issue No. 24, 14 Jun, 2014
  • Why I Write in English, Vol. 49, Issue No. 16, 19 Apr, 2014

The Operating System [ USA ]
  • Nada Faris on Andrea Gibson Apr 17, 2016

en.v. [ Kuwait ]
  • Jumana Al-Awadhi: The Female Leader of Kuwait’s Organic Revolution, Sep 5, 2012
  • Every Child Deserves A Home: Zeina Al-Sultan Unveils The Truths Behind Adoption in Kuwait, Aug 27, 2012 (Winner of en.v.earth’s Voice of Success Program, 2012)
  • Rebuilding the Kuwaiti Dream One Mess At A Time: Subbiya’s ‘Silk City’ Aug 16, 2012
  • In Civic Responsibility We Trust: Can Deera Save the Welfare State? Jul 14, 2012
  • Speaking Truth to Abuse: The Social Work Society of Kuwait, May 30, 2012
  • Make the Right Choice: Elham Al-Hamdan and Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute, May 3, 2012
  • A Hope Specialist: Rana Al-Omani, Mar 28, 2012

Arab Times [ Kuwait ]
  • Girls … Go for it: “Be Strong” bid to Achieve Gender Equality, Oct 31, 2016
  • A Police State is Not the Answer, Jun 28, 2015
REVIEWS
bazaar [ Kuwait ]
  • DEFINITELY DIFF(ERENT) Meqdad Al-Kout’s Banana, Dec 1, 2009
  • Kuwait in Paint: On Lewis Chapman’s Gallery “New Perspectives”, Nov 1, 2009
INTERVIEWS
Ink & Oil [ Kuwait ]
  • Nada Faris in Conversation with Maha Alasaker, Apr 13, 2019
  • Nada Faris In Conversation with Max Stossel, Dec 4, 2018

Kuwait Times [ Kuwait ]
  • Interview with Mai Al-Nakib, author of The Hidden Light of Objects, Mar 28, 2014 (p.9)
  • Interview with Gail Carriger, author of The Parasol Protectorate, Nov 27, 2009 (p.36)
  • Interview with Dani Kollin, author of The Unincorporated Man, Nov 20, 2009 (p.36)
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