In ArabLit Quarterly's Summer 2019 issue, "The Sea," the sea sometimes appears in its other meanings (as a sea of light, a sea of languages). But throughout this issue—our third—we swing back and forth between the sea as a site of pleasure and one of shocking violence. Poetry by Rami al-Asheq, Nazik al-Malaika, Wadih Saadeh and more, fictions by Muhammad El-Hajj, Taleb Alrefai, Muhammad El-Hajj, and Najla Binshatwan. Also featuring Studio Creole, Moroccan malhun poetry, pirate argot and more.