Fatima Al Matar فاطمة المطر

Jurisprudence has always been my weakness, my supervisor has continuously criticised my writing of the philosophical basis of my thesis, I...

In this unsettling silence I spoon your silhouette   I fit my shadow to your shadow there are moments when loneliness opens like a cracke...

Since I’ve come to live in the UK I’ve sent my niece numerous presents on birthdays and other occasions, my older sister (her mother) proba...

I take you like a pill reluctant, compelled. I press you through the thin, silver, metallic sheet there’s a comic yet evil sound to your p...

Rummaging in this plastered world what do I hope to gain from giving the ever hungry? what do I hope to save from my sieving religion? i h...

Let us love now Let us love now and live to tell our offspring how the riots stood a hindrance to our kisses your eyes as flames set to po...

When I became a mother I expected everything; the terrible fevers when I was desperate for sleep the agony of teething and tantrums and w...