Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Song for Bab Touma’
“There, in the hollow of slick mud / That reminds me of hunger and vagrant lips”
Poetry
The Red Suns, Purple Moons, and Gun-Carrying Mice of Syrian Poet Da’ad Haddad
“In her poetry world, the sun is red. The moon is purple. Snow is ubiquitous. Winter is eternal.”
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Stars and Rain’
“You who have shot me like a bullet outside the world.”
For IWD: 16 Works by Women Poets Writing in Arabic
“Maybe they are marginalized, so they have more opportunity to think, to write.”
New in Translation: Four Poems by Mohammad Abdelbari
“To read Mohammad Albdelbari is to listen to the voice as well as the silence.’
Poetry Revisited: Fadi Azzam’s ‘If You Are Syrian These Days …’
By Fadi Azzam Translated by Ghada Alatrash –If you are Syrian these days, you stand shielded and exposed, you are the awakening and the delusion, and the dream and the nightmare, all […]
Nozhet El Nofous: Selected Lyrics by Nancy Mounir
“The ghostly effect, however, isn’t haunting, but an empathetic hand across time.”
New Poetry: ‘Mind the Gap,’ a Syrian on the London Underground
On the underground / I sit and contemplate the ceiling. / London passes over me.
Three Poems by Riyad Al-Saleh Al-Hussein
“That I wrap my left arm around your shoulder / And my right around the shoulder of the world / And to say to the moon: / Take a photo of us.”