Ashraf Fayadh: ‘A Melancholy Made of Dough’
So your soul was mixed:
homogenized, fermented, kneaded, baked
and sold at stores that violated health codes,
forged—and used for illegal purposes,
voted on— and eaten
like a loaf.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Ashraf Fayadh: ‘The Last of the Line of Refugee Descendants’
I am Hell’s experiment on the planet Earth.
The Hell that has been prepared for refugees.
Four Short Poems by Ashraf Fayadh
Four short poems: “Equal opportunities,” “An aphorism,” “Conclusions,” and “Logic.”
Ashraf Fayadh: ‘A Space in the Void’
“Succumb to sleep.
because the time has come for you to melt, and dissolve,
to take the shape agreed for the alienation into which you’re have been poured.”
Ali al-Muqri: ‘As for Writers, There′s Nothing They Can Do’
“As for writers, there′s nothing they can do about the terrible situation in Yemen. They live under bombing and mortar fire, the same as everyone else, with the same shortage of basic necessities like water, food and electricity.”
2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize to Translator of ‘Sultan’s Seal’; ‘Land of No Rain’ Commended
“This text confronts the translator with extraordinary challenges.”
Finnegan’s List 2016: Anton Shammas and Sinan Antoon on What We Should Translate Now
“In this regard, and even though five of his novels have been translated into French, he is probably one of the most difficult writers to translate, especially into English. Yet, I can hardly think of any Arab novelist who’s worth the effort and the challenge more than this astonishing writer.”
Why Algerian Author Zehira Houfani Quit Writing Detective Novels
“State publishing, as with every other state sector, entered a serious crisis.”
A Poem to Mark Tamazight’s New Status As an Official Algerian Language
“alas you the clerics who chant
you who are well considered
can’t you see that our religion is up for sale”