noam keim

is a trauma worker, medicine maker and flâneur freak living between unceded Lenape land (Philadelphia) and their ancestral homeland of Morocco. Their first essay collection, “The Land is Holy” won the 2025 Evelyn Shakir Best Arab-American Non-Fiction award and the Foreword indies Bronze 2024. noam’s writing has been supported by Lambda Literary, Tin House, Sewanee, Periplus, and they have been awarded residencies by Space A Kathmandu, Pocoapoco Oaxaca, Nawat Fes amongst others. Their work can be found in The Michigan Quarterly Review, ALOCASIA, The Massachusetts Review, The Kenyon Review and others.

The Last Barbary Lion

The Last Barbary Lion

Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that...

4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By noam keim
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