M Lynx Qualey
@mlynxqualey.bsky.social
e.g. Author, translator, critic, founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly.
and for their next trick, the techbros will reinvent phrenology
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
and for their next trick, the techbros will reinvent phrenology
sounds lovely, although I am honestly not sure gorging on books is healthy for me
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
sounds lovely, although I am honestly not sure gorging on books is healthy for me
I guess I'm not one to comment since, at any given time, I have no idea where my phone is.
But people really feel *less* lonely when hanging out with their smartphones?
But people really feel *less* lonely when hanging out with their smartphones?
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.
www.openculture.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I guess I'm not one to comment since, at any given time, I have no idea where my phone is.
But people really feel *less* lonely when hanging out with their smartphones?
But people really feel *less* lonely when hanging out with their smartphones?
Every magazine editor I've introduced Alaa to has written me back a wondering email (or WhatsApp), days or weeks later, saying, something like, "I love Alaa." or "She is amazing."
She is. She is. She is.
She is. She is. She is.
Alaa Alqaisi writes: "My legs tremble beneath me, and I wonder if I have become too hollow to stand before God."
arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...
arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
September 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Every magazine editor I've introduced Alaa to has written me back a wondering email (or WhatsApp), days or weeks later, saying, something like, "I love Alaa." or "She is amazing."
She is. She is. She is.
She is. She is. She is.
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Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.
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We're pleased to share the winners of our annual literary awards for work published in Prairie Schooner in 2024. Winners include @threnody.bsky.social for the Lawrence Award and @mlynxqualey.bsky.social for the Virginia Faulkner Award.
Read more on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Read more on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
September 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We're pleased to share the winners of our annual literary awards for work published in Prairie Schooner in 2024. Winners include @threnody.bsky.social for the Lawrence Award and @mlynxqualey.bsky.social for the Virginia Faulkner Award.
Read more on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Read more on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
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September 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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When I can't remember the word "murder"
News Analysis: By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill a group of people aboard what he said was a drug-smuggling boat, President Trump used the military in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to specialists in the laws of war and executive power.
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
nyti.ms
September 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
When I can't remember the word "murder"
so pleased to be in the same issue as Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. 💚
Our latest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @bcar.bsky.social, @lenakt.bsky.social, @ninacpelaez.bsky.social, @pagestar.bsky.social, @preetivangani.bsky.social, @michaelimossan.bsky.social, and more.
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Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...
August 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
so pleased to be in the same issue as Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. 💚
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please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”
🙄 women join an industry, salaries plummet, men leave. what is the term for it? "men drain" or something?
ICYMI: Commentators are debating whether 'men are being pushed out of publishing' amid discussion of groupthink, editorial turnover and the gender split of book-prize recipients 👇 #BookSky
Are men being 'pushed out of publishing'? Industry insiders discuss
ebx.sh
July 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🙄 women join an industry, salaries plummet, men leave. what is the term for it? "men drain" or something?
A small discussion of publishing & Palestine.
Marcia Lynx Qualey, the force behind @arablit.bsky.social in nuanced and wide-ranging conversation on the politics of publishing about Palestine for the Radical Futures podcast
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Publishing on Palestine: Exploitation or Activism? Featuring Marcia Lynx Qualey
Podcast Episode · Radical Futures · 05/19/2025 · 46m
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May 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A small discussion of publishing & Palestine.
The kicker... this "AI" generated summer reading list full of fake titles "appears in print opposite a house ad for the Sun-Times that exhorts readers to 'Donate your old car and fund the news you rely on.'"
www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...
www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...
Chicago paper's "reading list" full of fake, likely AI-generated titles
You have to read down the list of 15 titles to the eleventh entry before you hit a real book .
www.axios.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The kicker... this "AI" generated summer reading list full of fake titles "appears in print opposite a house ad for the Sun-Times that exhorts readers to 'Donate your old car and fund the news you rely on.'"
www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...
www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...
💚Springtime Travels around the World: Translated Children’s Books Out This Spring and Summer
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Springtime Travels around the World - Words Without Borders
Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp recommends ten new children's books in translation, from madcap picture books to YA speculative fiction.
wordswithoutborders.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
💚Springtime Travels around the World: Translated Children’s Books Out This Spring and Summer
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Sorry, Francis will always be my Woke Marxist Pope.
May 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Sorry, Francis will always be my Woke Marxist Pope.
An urgent series of WhatsApps from one of our writers in Gaza who is living in a tent with her diabetic mother, and there is neither a reliable food supply nor reliable medicine, what hell is this, what hell, what hell.
May 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
An urgent series of WhatsApps from one of our writers in Gaza who is living in a tent with her diabetic mother, and there is neither a reliable food supply nor reliable medicine, what hell is this, what hell, what hell.
Those clients who only pay up for the previous project when they have a new book they want you to agree to edit. 🫠
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Those clients who only pay up for the previous project when they have a new book they want you to agree to edit. 🫠
why at these hybrid events am I always ogre-sized? I look like I might turn and eat poor Maria.
May 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
why at these hybrid events am I always ogre-sized? I look like I might turn and eat poor Maria.
Buyer's remorse that I made my persona literature/translation instead of making it women's basketball.
May 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Buyer's remorse that I made my persona literature/translation instead of making it women's basketball.
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I’ve known, loved, marched with trans friends since I came out 45 years ago. The ugly campaign to erase them, and the fact that it includes gay men and lesbians, including friends, is devastating. Their erasure will be ours; same-sex marriage, equality, diversity and freedom are in the firing line
April 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’ve known, loved, marched with trans friends since I came out 45 years ago. The ugly campaign to erase them, and the fact that it includes gay men and lesbians, including friends, is devastating. Their erasure will be ours; same-sex marriage, equality, diversity and freedom are in the firing line
One thing I had definitely not understood about the rising tides of fascism is how much of a boost it gets from opportunism & grifterism.
April 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
One thing I had definitely not understood about the rising tides of fascism is how much of a boost it gets from opportunism & grifterism.
Beautiful piece by author-publisher Husam Maarouf.
Laughter Without Joy: Between Gaza’s Reality and Beckett’s Stage
Laughter Without Joy: Between Gaza’s Reality and Beckett’s Stage
In this essay by Husam Maarouf, he writes: "Isn’t it strange for someone to laugh in Gaza? Here, laughter is not because destruction is amusing or enjoyable—it is a moment of nakedness before the self, a full exposure. One has no choice but to laugh."
arablit.org
April 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Beautiful piece by author-publisher Husam Maarouf.
You are missed, you are missed, you are missed.
April 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You are missed, you are missed, you are missed.
really had no idea that, to the ultrarich, "groceries" and a "grocery bag" were such foreign matter that they might code them as "old-fashioned."
Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
really had no idea that, to the ultrarich, "groceries" and a "grocery bag" were such foreign matter that they might code them as "old-fashioned."