Literature and Creative Writing
“Your stories not only matter, they’re necessary”: Mateo Askaripour on Writing
An interview with the NYU alum and former NYUAD RA on the occasion of the publication of his first novel.
12 Italian Novels for the Global Citizen
A list by novelist and journalist Carlo Pizzati.
VA-11 Hall-A and the Politics of Cyberpunk
Julián Carrera on the transformation of Japanese cyberpunk in the visual novel VA-11 Hall-A.
The Aesthetics of Dialogue in Oxenfree
Julián Carrera on the horror-inspired visual novel Oxenfree.
Tishani Doshi on Poetry
Poet and novelist Tishani Doshi talks with us on the eve of her appearance at the 2019 NYUAD Hekayah Festival.
Poetry, Prose, and Postscript
Zoe Jane Patterson and Vamika Sinha talk with us about their writing and their online literary magazine, Postscript.
Open Studios Shows Artists are Scientific Too
Yasmeen Tajiddin meditates on the benefits of taking a rigorous approach to writing and singing.
The Present is Female
A list of 12 novels you should read by NYUAD alum and current Stanford doctoral student Nikolaj Ramsdal Nielsen.
Can Literature Survive Twitter?
What happens to literature in the age of Twitter? Can it survive our increasingly short attention spans?
Four Poems
Four poems by the Hekayah 2019 poet Maitha AlSuwaidi.
What are Visual Novels?
Julián Carrera explores the contours of this emerging genre.
Danabelle Gutierrez on Writing Poetry in the UAE
The poet talks about writing poems and the UAE literary scene.