Soukaina Habiballah
Soukaina Habiballah is a Moroccan poet, novelist, and screenwriter, who has published four poetry collections, two novels, and one short story collection. She has received a number of awards including the 2015 Buland Al Haidari Prize, a Maydan Floating Voices Award, and the Nadine Shames Prize for Arab Screenwriter for her short film Who Left the Door Open?. She was a resident at the International Writing Program in Iowa in 2019.
Reading List
The way of houses
Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger We grow old The way of houses. At first, in the face, a small line Which no one reads as lines. With time, Cracks building. Fearfully and rapidly the names Gather their possessions from our heads and leave A terrible void behind them. Small rodents make […]
What we left behind down one road returned by another
Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger Every day, Every day, Every night, Experience notwithstanding, We enter sleep—not knowing Through which door—each time Like for the first time. Not an owl on a branch, Not one eye open, one eye closed, Like a dolphin, Not standing on one leg like a flamingo, Not […]