The Threshold
Leading in the Age of AI

First an Explanation I am emotionally drained. Which leaves one feeling melodramatic enough to make such a bold Statement. Spring cleaning getting rid of old furniture I grew up with and getting rid of stuff is like throwing away your past and memories which is dramatic to someone who isn’t Used to o......more

An extraordinary collection tracing the poet’s life, history, daily intimacies, migrations, family, origins. Includes an informative and compelling introduction by the translator.......more

(This book was read for a MENA Heritage Month episode for The Review Slip Podcast). I really enjoyed my time reading The Threshold. One of the things that I think is fun about Poetry Collections is you get to go in knowing there are going to be some pieces that don’t resonate with you, and that’s oka......more

"Mersal’s work explores uncomfortable questions of fatherland, family, fidelity, identity, and being a daughter, wife, mother, lover, and artist. In a voice both fluid and laser-focused, fierce and tenuous, unflinching and vulnerable, she hews a path that is post-Arab-modernist, unsettling certainti......more

My first encounter with Iman Mersal, and now I want to read more! She writes such visceral, playful, mournful, and tender poems, that balance lyricism and simplicity perfectly. Each poem reads almost as a short story, the kind of story that leaves you wanting more. My favourites in the collection ar......more