“This award reminds Fayadh, his family, his supporters, and most importantly, his jailers, that his colleagues will continue advocate for his right to freedom of expression until he is released.”
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Friday Finds: Hisham Bustani’s ‘Crossing,’ Translated by Maia Tabet
“You cross the bridge suspended over the canal. Colored ships slowly glide across the surface of blue waters below. Now and then, from beyond the hills of fine sand, a date palm emerges, a village, some people. Fish dart across the lake and a swarthy, dusty child poses for the camera, stick in hand.”
‘Rebellion of Silence’: New Work by Poet-on-trial Dareen Tatour
Blue –
Like the anger of the waves.
I broken my silence,
Only for bitterness to build a settlement in my heart!
‘A Blade of Grass’: Support Ashraf Fayadh, Dareen Tatour, and New Palestinian Poetry
The grant has allowed Smokestack to pay a small contributors’ fee of £10 a page, but the crowdfunding campaign seeks to “increase this fee to a more professional rate; to cover design and printing costs for the book; and to raise money toward the legal fees of Ashraf Fayadh and Dareen Tatour, both currently imprisoned, respectively in Saudi Arabia and Israel, on charges related to their poetry.”
Should Roger Waters #NametheTranslator in Song Written Around Darwish Poem?
“And the translator is once again invisible, almost incidental. Not only is s/he anonymous but, because the lyrics are not even presented as the translation that they – for the most part – are, their creative labour is totally brushed aside.”
35 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
As every year, ArabLit revisits.
‘A Poet’s Hallucinations,’ by Dareen Tatour
Desire builds a nest
Between the branches of my love.
It sings like a bulbul, night and day
And sweeps through me like fire through straw.
A New Translation of Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour’s ‘I… Who Am I?’
I am Me…
A storm of angry waves at sunset,
Its breathing strangled in the grip of the winds.
But as I draw near the question pulls away,
And I keep on asking: “Who am I?”
Must-read Classics by Arab Women Writers: Short Stories by Samira Azzam
“…one of the first and pre-eminent Palestinian literary voices in the wake of the Nakba of 1948.”
Friday Finds: An Interview with Amer Hlehel and Amir Nizar Zuabi about ‘Taha’
“It is very dangerous what I’m going to say: Taha’s poetry about the Palestinian catastrophe lasts much more than Darwish’s poetry.”
Tamim Barghouti and Translating Popular Arabic Poetry into English
And yet now Al-Barghouti — who is something of a poet-celebrity, with a viral poem in 2011 and a major 2007 appearance on the Prince of Poets TV show — has his first collection of work in English.
9-Book Shortlist Announced for 2017 Palestine Book Awards
The shortlist includes a YA novel and YA memoir as well as political and scholarly works.
