[SELECTED WRITING]

ESSAYS:

Against Archives of Emptiness: Ghost Women and the Politics of Memory in the Khaleej for Dazed Middle East

POETRY & PROSE:

Devil’s Got My Bike for Tinderbox Poetry

Veto Against Cartography for Tinderbox Poetry

Solar Eclipse at the Sircon Buildings for Tinderbox Poetry

3 Poems for Rooted Transience, Kaph Books, 2025.

EXHIBITIONS & ARCHIVAL PROJECTS:

At the Edge of Renewal / على ضفاف التجدد at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah

The Reading Room at Marwah Almugait Studio, JAX District, Riyadh

The Khaleeji Women’s Library & Archive (KWLA)

With the Feather in Our Throat, Masaha 9 Showcase at Misk Art Institute, Riyadh

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS:

Descending for the Dead: leena aboutaleb on Myth, Elegy, and Writing the Afterlife for Split Lip

Desert Poetry in the Digital Age for Electric Literature

So many parts of me had to die to come here: In Conversation with Fariha Róisín for Sumou

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Masaha Art Residency (2025), Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, KSA

Krasis (2022), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Al Ruwaad Merit Scholarship (2022), Saudi Ministry of Education, London, UK

The Rhodes Scholarship (2021), Rhodes Trust, Oxford, UK