Tariq al Haydar has published a novella in Arabic titled Hellat al-Abeed (The Slave District). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications, including The Atlantic, The Normal School, Down & Out and Jadaliyya. He is a lecturer at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia and a Ph.D. candidate at the George Washington University, and has been a contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.