WRITING

​Poetry

LITERARY JOURNALS
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts​ (Summer/Fall 2021)

• The Ancient Art of Gematria

No Contact (Issue 23: August 2021)

• ​Poem to be Read from Right to Left, ​

1. Finalist in No Contact's Summer Poetry Contest, 2021
2. Nominated by No Contact for a Pushcart Prize, 2021.

The American Journal of Poetry (Volume 11: July 1, 2021)

• Story of the Fall

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Tribes (June 24, 2021)

• Poet in New York
• Pharos of Alexandria

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As it Ought to Be (April 26, 2021)

• Echo's Song to Her Lover

One Jacar​ (Issue 23: April 2021)

• ​Every Day is a Celebration Worthy of Fireworks

1. Nominated by One Jacar for Best of the Net 2021

Grand Little Things (April 8, 2021)

• New Moon, New Flame

Amethyst Review​​ (February 2021)

• Unholy Sonnet

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No Contact (Issue 17: February 2021)

• Aubade
• Marshmallow in a Bottle ​

The Indianapolis Review (Issue 13: Summer 2020)

• Saturn

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Some Kind of Opening (Issue 3)

• Body Without Organs

Nimrod Journal (Spring/Summer 2019, Vol. 62. No. 2: 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)

AUDIO FEATURES
Literary Hub & Micro Podcast

• "Marshmallow in a Bottle" with Gabrielle Bates's "How Judas Died" and torrin a. greathouse's "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

STAGE POEMS
Circle of Peace (Al-Shaheed Park)

• To Women Who Don’t Support Women’s Rights, March 2017 (Abolish Article 153)

The Divan

• You are the Frenzy, April 2016 (Debates)

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR)

• greater > me, March 2016 (TEDxAlShuwaikh)

Gulf University for Science and Technology

• Every Shaman is a Poet, December 2016 (The English Club's Poetry Night)
• Dear Dad, December 2015 (The English Club's Poetry Night)

Arab Open University

• Sing to Me, Pandora, March 2014 (The English Day)

American University of Kuwait

• Lady Susanna Montgomery, December 2016 (Fikir AUK x KPS’s Open Mic Night)
• So Much Happens in Our Bodies, March 2015 (International Women’s Day)

Live Theater

• In Response to Abdullah Buwair’s Article in Kuwait Times Newspaper, December 2013 (Isma3ni's Anniversary Show)

Taste of Jamaica

• Transference, January 2015 (7th Slam Contest)
• I Call Us Frankensteinian, January 2015 (7th Slam Contest)
• Why Wait Kuwait, April 2014 (6th Poetry Slam Contest)
• Facebook Intellectuals, September 2012 (3rd Poetry Slam Contest)

Nonfiction

ESSAYS & ARTICLES
The Operating System & Liminal Lab [ USA ]

• 'Dreams are like Poems': The Radical Healing Potential of Poetry [1/2] February 16, 2021

The Operating System [ USA ]

• Nada Faris on Andrea Gibson Apr 17, 2016​

Fanack Chronicle of the Middle East & North Africa [ Netherlands ]

• Kuwait’s Anglowaiti Music Scene, August 25, 2017
• Writers Fall Foul of Saudi’s Laws, February 1, 2017
• Qatar’s Massive Strides in Women’s Sports, June 1, 2016
• Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, Qatar’s Persecuted Poet, October 19, 2016
• The UAE Between Geo-Political Dangers and Happiness, March 10, 2016
• From Fencing Champion to Gender-Equality Activist: Kuwait’s Balsam Al-Ayoub, February 24, 2016

Economic and Political Weekly [ India ]

• Slam the Mike, Vol. 51, Issue No. 51, 17 December, 2016
• Is Gender Equality an Oxymoron? Vol. 51, Issue No. 18, 30 April, 2016
• Believing Is Seeing, Vol. 50, Issue No. 33, 15 August, 2015
• Art as Commodity, Vol. 50, Issue No. 8, 21 February, 2015
• A Vehicle of Escape, Vol. 49, Issue No. 43-44, 01 November, 2014
• The Ugly Struggle, Vol. 49, Issue No. 38, 20 September, 2014
• A Method to My Madness, Vol. 49, Issue No. 24, 14 June, 2014
• Why I Write in English, Vol. 49, Issue No. 16, 19 April, 2014

The Times [ Kuwait ]

• Mental Healthcare is a Human Right, March 6, 2021

Arab Times [ Kuwait ]

• Girls … Go for it: “Be Strong” bid to Achieve Gender Equality, October 31, 2016
• You’re Doing it Again, Kuwait: Demolishing Bayt Lothan to Build a Mall in its Place?, February 23, 2016, page 3
• A Police State is Not the Answer, June 28, 2015

en.v. [ Kuwait ]

• Jumana Al-Awadhi: The Female Leader of Kuwait’s Organic Revolution, September 5, 2012
• Every Child Deserves A Home: Zeina Al-Sultan Unveils The Truths Behind Adoption in Kuwait, August 27, 2012 

1. Winner of en.v.earth’s Voice of Success Program, 2012

• Rebuilding the Kuwaiti Dream One Mess At A Time: Subbiya’s ‘Silk City’ August 16, 2012
• In Civic Responsibility We Trust: Can Deera Save the Welfare State? July 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, March 28, 2012

CityPages [ Kuwait ]

• Breaking the Deadlock: Thinking about Identity in Anglowaiti Literature, March 2015, page 88

TALKS, SEMINARS, AND PANELS
American University of Kuwait

• On Personal Strategies and Changing the World, March 8, 2015 (International Women's Day)

Q8Bookstore

• World Book Day Interview, April 2014 (Panel with Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa and Shurooq Amin)

Bayan Bilingual School

• Why I Write, September 16, 2014

Iowa City’s Book Festival

• Representation and Kuwaiti Literature, October 12, 2013 (Facts and Fiction Panel)

Gulf University for Science and Technology

• On ‘Anglowaiti’ Literature, May 5, 2013 (GELL Creative Writing)

REVIEWS
bazaar [ Kuwait ]

• DEFINITELY DIFF(ERENT) Meqdad Al-Kout’s Banana, December 1, 2009
• Kuwait in Paint: On Lewis Chapman’s Gallery “New Perspectives”, November 1, 2009

INTERVIEWS
Ink & Oil [ Kuwait ]

• Nada Faris in Conversation with Maha Alasaker, April 13, 2019
• Nada Faris In Conversation with Max Stossel, December 4, 2018

Kuwait Times [ Kuwait ]

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

SECTIONS FROM BOOKS
The Elephant in the Room: Stories and Articles from Anglophone Kuwait

• As a Kuwaiti who writes in English, am I ‘Westernized?’ (from “Was the Word: Anglowaiti”)

Before Young Adult Fiction

• English is Not the Language of Colonization in Kuwait, April 2013, pages 21–26.

​Fiction

PRINT ANTHOLOGIES
W.W. Norton & Company
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or 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, August 1, 2009

SHORT STORIES
CityPages

• Delicious Foul Slumber, February 2013, (p. 66)

UniQue 

• Circumscribed Criticism, December. 2009, (pp. 86-87)

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 (pp. 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 (pp. 76-77)
• Chapter 4 – “Some Afraid of the Church, Some of the Venetians,” Issue 42, June 2013 (pp. 84-85)
• Chapter 5 – “He Can Support Himself with his Own Resources,” Issue 43, July 2013 (pp. 78-79)
• Chapter 6 – “All Yield Obedience to Others,” Issue 44, August 2013 (pp. 64-65)
• Chapter 7 – “More Enslaved than the Hebrews,” Issue 45, September 2013 (pp. 100-101)
• Chapter 8 – “Does Not Communicate His Desire to Anyone,” Issue 46, October 2013 (pp. 84-85)
• Chapter 9 – “The Malady Has Become Incurable,” Issue 47, November 2013 (pp.108-109)
• Chapter 10 – “Seasoning the Dinner,” Issue 48, December 2013 (pp. 64-65)
• Chapter 11 – “Bound by the Benefits they Confer as Much as by those they Receive,” Issue 49, January 2014 (pp. 76-77)
• Chapter 12 – “When He is Either a True Friend or a Downright Enemy,” Issue 50, February 2014 (pp. 86-87)