Mona Kareem (Arabic: منى كريم; born 1987) is an Arab-American writer, translator, and literary scholar, as well as an advocate for migrant rights.
Kareem told the Associated Press that Kuwaiti authorities informed her that she risked imprisonment if she remained in the country.
Themes often deal with feminism and identity, especially as a migrant,[14][15] and push beyond liberal feminist and colonial frameworks to examine structural violence of the nation-state.
[16] At 14 years old, Kareem published her first poetry collection, Arabic: نهارات مغسولة بماء العطش, romanized: Naharaat maghsūla bi Ma-e el ’atash, lit.
Two years later, she released her second anthology Arabic: غياب بأصابعي مبذورة, romanized: Ghiyab bi asabi’ mabthūra, lit.