’67 Children’: A Friday Poem by Ahlam Bsharat
“67 mothers calling”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Friday Finds: Two Poems by Ameer Hamad
“These two poems translated by Katharine Halls are small enough to carry in one’s palm; they utilise a mode of poetic witness attuned to distillation, frankness, and the startling force of an ending.”
The Challenges (and Possibilities) of Translating Literary Scholarship
“And it’s not right for those conversations and insights to be documented only in English, a language that some of those same theatre-makers would find difficult to access, and not in Arabic.”
From ‘Your Name, Palestine’ by Olivia Elias
“Eyes fixed on the Mediterranean /
mirage shimmering from afar /
we sail from island to island /
between walls and barbed wire”
‘Notebooks of the Booksellers’ Wins 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“In intensely poetic language, Jordanian writer Jalal Barjas throws light on a totally schizophrenic reality in his country, which lies on a fault line prone to frequent tremors.”
‘A Poetics of Return’: Talking Migration and Return with Wessam Elmeligi
“If migration is not permanent, then what? Is there always some kind of return?”
‘The Cat Cow’ by Ahlam Bsharat
“I want to hug the cat named Cow, who survived the war”
Two Lebanese Writers Were on the Nominations List for 1970 Nobel
“The Nobel committee releases their archives 50 years after the prize deliberations in question.”
Friday Finds: Kayfa Ta on ‘Shapeshifting Texts and Other Publishing Tactics’
In 2012, Ala Younis and Maha Maamoun founded Kayfa ta as an independent publishing initiative that “emerged from a need to break out of the limited readership and distribution of alternative books.”