Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Zein El-Amine

Zein El-Amine’s poems have been published in Wild River Review, Folio, Foreign Policy in Focus, Beltway Quarterly, DC Poets Against the War Anthology, Penumbra, GYST and Joybringer.

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Send My Regards to Your Mother

I. I sometimes refer to my college years in Saudi Arabia as “doing time.” But early in those years I did some time that almost did me in—and my mother, too. I had spent high school in Bahrain as a boarder. My father pressured me to attend university near our house in Dhahran, where he worked as a

Zein El-Amine • 25 min read

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Haiku for the Headlocked

We thrash, curse for air As our strangler declares, look How violent the Arab

Zein El-Amine • 1 min read