Author: MK Harb

Mohamad Khalil (MK) Harb is a writer in Beirut. He received his graduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2018 where he wrote an award-winning thesis on escapism in Beirut. MK currently serves as Editor-at-Large for Lebanon at Asymptote Journal, commissioning and writing pieces relating to Arab literature in translation. His fiction and nonfiction work has been published in The White Review, The Bombay Review, BOMB Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Hyperallergic, Art Review Asia, Asymptote, Scroope Journal and Jadaliyya. He is currently working on a collection of short stories pertaining to the Arabian Peninsula.

2 July, 2023 • MK Harb

The City Within—fiction from MK Harb

In MK Harb's latest story, a man steps out of his home in Beirut after two years of living in isolation to a life-changing encounter.

5 March, 2023 • MK Harb

“Counter Strike”—a story by MK HARB

MK Harb, a writer from Beirut, remembers a tenuous sense of home as he searched for himself in adolescence.