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Introduction
Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya, Shall I Call?
Mouna Ouafik, Eloquent Tongue
Saieda Rouass, A Free Girl's Tale
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, I Walk My Walk
Aisha al-Qurtubiyya, On Being Proposed to by a Male Poet
Malika Moustadraf, Housefly
Zainab bint Farwa al-Mariyya, You Who Are Riding
Khadija bint al-Ma'mun, That Buck
Samia Issa, Fig Milk: An Excerpt
Laura Hanna, Communion
Anonymous, You Don't Satisfy
Zad-Mihr, Letters of Zad Mihr
Qabiha Jariyat al-Mutawakkil, Enjoy This Girl

Farah Barqawi, Four Days to Fall In and Out of Love
Nayla Elamin, boy, dancing
Salomé, A Wedding Night for Zen
Umra bint al-Hamaris, Rock and Shake
Qasmuna bint Ismail, The Unnamable Remains
lisa luxx, to write the wrongs of centuries, we must brew our own tools
Anonymous, What is its Name?
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, Love Thrives
Fadwa Al Taweel, Sky Lounge Dubai
Sahib Jariyat ibn Tarkhan An-Nakhas, Your Cool Lips
Nayla Elamin, Drink Me, Smash Me
Randa Jarrar, A Map of Home (An Excerpt)
Laura Hanna, Pole Play
I'timad Arrumaikiyya, I Urge You To Come

Salwa Al Neimi, Seventh Gate: On the Ecstasies of the Body
Shurooq Amin, Hymen Secrets: Girl with a Box
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, Give My Greetings
Nedjma, The Almond (An Excerpt)
Nayla Elamin, Djinn
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, Lord, It's Not a Crime
Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (An Excerpt)
Rita El Khayat, Skin
Zahra al-Kilabiyya, I Keep My Passion
Mouna Ouafik, Orgasm
Joumana Haddad, Lovers Should Only Wear Moccasins
Shurooq Amin, Another Kind of Love
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, We Wrote in Symbols
Samira Negrouche, Between Scrawls and Sketches

Mouna Ouafik, Candy Crush
Hiba Moustafa, Contemplation
khulud khamis, At Last
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, Epigram
Mouna Ouafik, Regret is a Belated Conceit
Rita El Khayat, Messalina Unbound
Nathalie Handal, Les Fenêtres
Three Drafts
Leïla Slimani, Adèle (An Excerpt)
Najwa Barakat, Oh Salaam! (An Excerpt)
Umm al-Ward al-Ajlaniyya, A Strong Claw
Ad-Dihdaha al-Faqimiyya, Drooping
Bint Magdaliya, The Trembling Woman
Shurooq Amin, Resurrection
Joyce Mansour, Noise in the Next Room
Umm al-Ward al-Ajlaniyya, If You Want to Know
Rasha Abbas, Simon the Matador

Arim Jariyat Zalbahda an-Nakhas, Narrow and Hot
Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya, I Am the Wonder
Adania Shibli, Without Rhyme
lisa luxx, Arachnophobia
Umm al-Ala bint Yusuf, If Love and Song
Jariyat Humam ibn Murra, For A Bald Head
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, Rayb
Sabrina Mahfouz TALI: one day when I worked at the bakery
Suad Amiry, As Yummy as Kibbeh
Dahna bint Mas-hal, Lay off
Ulayya bint al-Mahdi, Salma
Dahiya al-Hilaliyya, Yemeni lover
Hoda Barakat, The Stone of Laughter (An Excerpt)
Yasmine Seale, After Ibn Arabi (poem 27)
Yasmine Seale, After Ibn Arabi (poem 14)

Colette Fellous, Mahdia.