Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Bleak Ink Sky’
“I am done / Smoke rises from my heart.”
Poetry
‘Ode to a Burning Homeland’: Two Poems for Sudan
Our beloved homeland is burning!
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Song for Bab Touma’
“There, in the hollow of slick mud / That reminds me of hunger and vagrant lips”
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.”