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”
Poetry
‘The Cat Cow’ by Ahlam Bsharat
“I want to hug the cat named Cow, who survived the war”
New Poetry by Ahlam Bsharat: ‘I Saw a Dead Road on the Road’
“I saw a dead road on the road / & left it there”
Nakba Day: Free Palestinian Ebooks, Magazines, More Recommended Reading
There are at least two digital Nakba Day events today; one with poet Najwan Darwish and another the kickoff events for Palestine Art Week: Also to mark Nakba Day, which […]
Friday Finds: ‘Palestine Twenty Times in a Sentence’
The three translated poems are “We,” “Massacres,” and “I Don’t Ask Anymore.”
Lebanese Poet Inaya Jaber, 1958-2021
Lebanese poet, journalist, artist, and singer Inaya Jaber died Monday evening after a brief struggle with illness, according to news reports.
New Poetry in Translation: ‘On the Bursh After Dinner’
“Farewell to the prison bars and walls / Farewell to friends and our nighttime talks / when you divvied up the moonlight amongst us.”
Friday Finds: The Words Without Borders Mauritania Issue
“There are seven different authors featured in the special section, translated from Arabic and from French, writing in widely different genres and styles; their work provides visions of Mauritania both future and past, future fiction, ironic time-travel fiction, historical fiction set in the seventeenth century, and tersely expressive poetry.”
Friday Finds: Celebrating Iman Mersal
But there’s also much more of Mersal’s work to explore online.