In This Issue

This issue celebrates Sekka’s first anniversary and highlights creative work by writers and artists from the Arabian Gulf Region. 

Creative

Poem: Lovers at sunset

A poem by Farah El Sherif from Egypt.

Poem: A concerned neighbourhood

She lives in constant, heart-aching fear of locking people in once they’re in.

Fiction: No more or less

Not a single sound could be heard. I looked up and was surprised to see not one but two suns shining down on Earth, if that is where I’m in.

Short poems: Oceans, Midnight, and Stars

Take me back to that night 
when the stars were our only witness.

Fiction: Un-social media

I will pretend to be a Gulf national, thinks Salim, who is from Lebanon, and is already plotting the ways in which he will present, or rather, misrepresent himself.

Poem: In memory of you

I can hear you speak, hear you tell a funny joke.

Fiction: Hinted memories

“At home, Bo Ali couldn’t look at Lamya, his beloved wife’s, eyes.”

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