Koukash Review

Koukash Review

A Literary Journal for SWANA and its Diaspora • Est. 2018

A Literary Journal for SWANA and its Diaspora • Est. 2018

issue 1

2022

Featuring under-respresented voices from SWANA and beyond, the Koukash Review inaugural issue is a celebration of our shared stories and identities, here and abroad.

/poetry

& love still means whatever it means once it's over

Issam A Zeibak

A Guide for Nourishing Dust

Lara Atallah

before we go out to dinner, i braid my grandfather’s hair

Devi Sastry

A Woman at the stake remembering that in Shakespear’s Julius Caesar the street poet / Was also killed for crimes he did not commit

Yasmine Rukia

The Dinner Party

Holly Mason Badra

aubade of remembrance

Jenna Hamed

Okra

Rina Malagayo Alluri

Containment

Sara Elkamel

Agua

Marisol Moreno Ortiz

pigeonholed

Hanna Kherzai

In Virginia my partner makes arrangements for her aging father in Michigan during a pandemic under mandatory quarantine

Holly Mason Badra

Third Culture Kid I

Issam A Zeibak

The most vulgar word you can think of

Alexandra Millatmal

sizdah bedar / 13 outside

Hanna Kherzai

when my mother discovered a box of tampons in my bag

Rewa Zeinati

Santa: A Haibun

Lilou Bo

Sword-shaped Heart

Farnaz Fatemi

Seventeen

Rewa Zeinati

I Name the Eight Muscles of My Tongue

Farnaz Fatemi

/Prose

Jasmine

Jana Amin

Untitling

Sarah Aziza

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