Momtaza Mehri

A poem.

Momtaza Mehri and Warsan Shire talk about nineties London, parentification and diasporic inheritances.

Just because you're being listened to, it doesn't mean you're being heard. A review of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics.

A reflection on form and the Arab radical documentary.

On I May Destroy You, Authorial Selves & Regimes of Relatability

The poet Diane di Prima died at the age of 86 on the 25th October. A celebrated writer and political activist, her work included the Revolutionary Letters. Here, Momtaza Mehri reflects on di Prima's work and legacy.

On miasmic history, Arabic art and the possibility of a common language. For The Poetry Review.

Alienation is the soundtrack to Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s cutthroat drama about the inner lives of investment bankers.

Lazy critics reach for the imaginatively immediate, drawing from a barren landscape where adjectives like necessary jostle alongside trusted favourites such as urgent and searing.

How should we respond to the moral panic generated by the current wave of youth crime? How does it feel to live in a world where that's normal?

POETRY (April, 2019).

On M.I.A.’s legacy as an infuriatingly internationalist icon, political blackness and the artistic practice of surviving refugehood.

My Best Of 2018 pick for Artforum (Wendy Trevino's Cruel Fiction).

The World Cup in Bleus.