Selected Works
Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
- The hero is dead, long live the mountain: Faris Dajani’s Threshold, Mizna
- On Ancestral Daughter & Return: A Conversation with Zeina Jhaish, Unootha
- Translator’s Note for Anees Ghanima’s Poems, Logic(s) Magazine
- Through the Algorithm: Empire, Power and World-Making in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s ‘If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust’ at the Art Institute Chicago, Third Text
- Sun and Sea by Lamia Joriege [Marfa’ Beirut], Tribe Photo Magazine
- May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme [Museum of Modern Art], Tribe Photo Magazine
- As We Gaze Upon Her by Banat Collective [Warehouse421], Tribe Photo Magazine
Editoral Work
Panels and Conversations
- Towards a Liberatory Literature: A Palestinian Voices Reading and Conversation, Kundiman @ AWP
- After Etel Adnan, Massachusetts Poetry Festival with Summer Farah and Jess Rizkallah
- Leena Aboutaleb Speaks with Summer Farah About Her Debut Chapbook, Poetry.Onl
- Love and Intimacy with Nour Arafat, LIFTA x CPS
- Palestinian Futurism, FIYAH Lit Con
Translations
Selected Works
- Ramadan, Poetry Online (longlisted for Room Magazine’s 2024 Poetry Contest, nominated for Best of the Net 2026)
- Mythos, Poetry Ireland Review
- Khushkhash, Shenandoah Literary
- Lush, The Margins
- October, Mizna
- What about witnessing do you want to remember?, Columbia Journal
- Portal: Cyclical, Split this Rock
- Inheritance, Prairie Schooner Fusion (reprinted in Prairie Schooner Print, Editor’s Pick 12 Years, Summer 2024)
- Hijacked Interiors, Strange Horizons (Ignyte Award finalist)
- Languaging Memory, Poetry Online (reprinted in Ugly Duckling Presse, translated into Korean and Spanish)
- Spectral Memory, Poetry Ireland Review
- Line 3, Kit-Kat, Poetry London (reprinted in Poetry Daily)
- art exhibition: west bank girl on fire, Strange Horizons (anthologised in HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US)
- LIBERATION IS ROTTING IN YOUR FIGS, FIYAH (reprinted in Room Magazine)
- Provocation of the Night, Mizna
- elegy (i); the grave, ANMLY
- Of A Coming World, BAHR (anthologised in HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US)
- Cairo Love Story + KUN FAYAKUN, The Hunger
- EL BAHR, EL BAHR, EL BAHR, Vagabond City
Notes
1 All links are accessible by simply clicking each title.
2 To contact, send an inquiry, comission or attempt any sort of plot with leena, please do so via the contact form (click here).
3 Substack linked here
1 All links are accessible by simply clicking each title.
2 To contact, send an inquiry, comission or attempt any sort of plot with leena, please do so via the contact form (click here).
3 Substack linked here