Fish, Resistant Bodies, and Sameh Mahran’s ‘The Boatman’
Young Man: The most beautiful thing about fish is that they don’t need to take their clothes off. Young Woman: And they make love just like that, no need or privacy.
Poetry
Friday Finds: Two by Jan Dost
“I don’t know how many hours I’d spent in solitary confinement. I was alone with four cold silent walls. I couldn’t hear anyone’s voice in that gloomy cell, and I don’t think anyone could hear me.”
Palestinian Sheikha Hussein Helawy Wins Almultaqa Prize for ‘Order C345’
Organizers of AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story yesterday announced the winner of the 2019 prize was the collection “Order C345,” by Palestinian writer Sheikha Hussein Helawy.
Sunday Submissions: Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, Applications Closing Soon
“Though English is the target language, the emerging translator need not live in the United States.”
Recommended Read: ‘Palestine as Metaphor’
“I don’t like to resemble these taxi drivers to whom passing journalists glean their quick impressions about the country they are visiting.”
Hilal Chouman: ‘This is Truly the Revolution of the Disenfranchised’
“I believe the past — whether we call it a civil war or peace — will not end until the fall of the Second Republic, which is the protector of the official narrative of the civil war and the killer of the war’s missing and kidnapped.”
Friday Finds: Poet Golan Haji in Four Languages
You thinned your pain. / Tu as poli ta douleur. / Du hast deinen Schmerz verschmälert.
In Love and Word Ensnared
Mourns a friend and blames time
that struck her down with what struck me
Sunday Submissions: Copper Canyon Accepting Translated Poetry Manuscripts
Submissions close December 1, 2019.