banah el ghadbanah

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published poems





“Love in the Times of Khibbezeh,” Arrow Journal 

"moonlit," "de dea syria," and "where the goddess lives" in Allium

“the kesra poem” in Mizna: The Cinema Issue

"Ninkarrak" and "ishtar remembers" on Shade Literary Arts



"Goddess Triptych: Three Poems," on Mizna’s collaboration with the Asian American Writer's Workshop

“Before I forget" in the Women's Review of Books

“The Moreover,” “Midnight: Zenobia dreams of Amara’s hair on her pillow,” “de dea syria, the goddesses venture into the galaxy of desire” in Bahr Mag

“Anahita” in Poetry Northwest

Poem for the outsiders needing in and the insiders needing out," and "enceladus," in dream of the river (Jacar Press)


“aya” and “Your ghost is a white butterfly, the tender rain” in Her Words by Black Mountain Press

“Chicken Scratch/ Risum al Dajaj”  in Pinch Journal


“Sally Hansen and the Motherfucking Lavendar Scented Tribe,” The A Project: Politics of Body Hair

“kahinah” in 3asal Mag for Southwest Asian and Northwest African Women

“Azadi” and “in the revolution” in Afghan Punk Magazine

Reflections from the Halal Store in Palestine, Texas and Damascus, Arkansas in Voice & Verse Magazine

“An inevitably queer reading of Fairuz” in the Remnant Archive  
“These Bombs broke my Back”  “homegirls, mishmish, and the moon,” “Letter to Um Yusuf” under the pen-name Aziza Quzeiz  in Sukoon Literary Magazine

“I dream of the same place every night” in Passage & Place

“fr muslim girls who considered suicide when the ummah wasn’t enuf” under the pen name zanzooba magdoos, top five winner of The Feminist Wire’s poetry contest

“poem for the outsiders looking in and the insiders needing out” under the pen name Aziza Zenobia in