Poem to be Read from Right to Left
Finalist in No Contact's Summer Poetry Contest, 2021
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021
No Contact
Every Day is a Celebration Worthy of Fireworks
Nominated for Best of the Net, 2021
One Jacar
Finalist in No Contact's Summer Poetry Contest, 2021
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021
No Contact
Every Day is a Celebration Worthy of Fireworks
Nominated for Best of the Net, 2021
One Jacar
Poetry
LITERARY JOURNALS
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Summer/Fall 2021)
No Contact (Issue 23: August 2021)
The American Journal of Poetry (Volume 11: July 1, 2021)
Tribes (June 24, 2021)
As it Ought to Be (April 26, 2021)
One Jacar (Issue 23: April 2021)
Grand Little Things (April 8, 2021)
Amethyst Review (February 2021)
No Contact (Issue 17: February 2021)
The Indianapolis Review (Issue 13: Summer 2020)
Some Kind of Opening (Issue 3)
Nimrod Journal (Spring/Summer 2019, Vol. 62. No. 2: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa)
The Beyond (Issue 2, February 2019)
The Indianola Review (Volume 1, Winter 2015)
No Contact (Issue 23: August 2021)
- Finalist in No Contact's Summer Poetry Contest, 2021
- Nominated by No Contact for a Pushcart Prize, 2021.
The American Journal of Poetry (Volume 11: July 1, 2021)
- Story of the Fall
Tribes (June 24, 2021)
As it Ought to Be (April 26, 2021)
One Jacar (Issue 23: April 2021)
- Nominated by One Jacar for Best of the Net 2021
Grand Little Things (April 8, 2021)
Amethyst Review (February 2021)
No Contact (Issue 17: February 2021)
The Indianapolis Review (Issue 13: Summer 2020)
Some Kind of Opening (Issue 3)
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)
The Divan
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR)
Gulf University for Science and Technology
Arab Open University
American University of Kuwait
Live Theater
Taste of Jamaica
- 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 ]
The Operating System [ USA ]
Fanack Chronicle of the Middle East & North Africa [ Netherlands ]
Economic and Political Weekly [ India ]
The Times [ Kuwait ]
Arab Times [ Kuwait ]
en.v. [ Kuwait ]
CityPages [ Kuwait ]
- '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
- 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
Q8Bookstore
Bayan Bilingual School
Iowa City’s Book Festival
Gulf University for Science and Technology
- 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 ]
Kuwait Times [ 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
Before Young Adult Fiction
- 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
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
Six Sentences
Silk Routes
Six Sentences
- Deliverance, August 1, 2009
SHORT STORIES
CityPages
UniQue
- 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)
