Friday Finds: 13 Poems by Youssef Rakha
“& I didn’t taste her lips / & company didn’t show until the final day I filled the space that’s for your body / consciously or lost”
Poetry
MPT Focus: 10 Emerging Poets from the Maghreb
The ten poets were: Zouleikha Elhamed, Fatma Krouma, Nassima Raoui, Cheikh Nouh, Faraj Mohamed Ali Aghnayah, Fadhila Bechar, Mohammed Rafik Taibi, Adil Latefi, Ashref Kerkeni, and Fatima Miftah Hasan Balkhayrat.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Kohl’ Journal’s Queer Feminisms Writing Workshop
The deadline for submitting a complete application is Sunday, August 11, 2019.
Friday Finds: Darwish’s ‘Red Indian’ Poem Across Eight Languages
“…K k’aaba’ob, che’ob beeta’an yéetel kili’ich t’aan, juntúul ch’íich’ ka’anal u xik’nal máanal u ka’analil ti’ jump’éel ts’oon.”
10 Translated Poems by Fawzi Karim (1945-2019)
“Karim is a poet for our times, with his strong yet beautiful voice, his indignation … and the haunting memories of certain lines that seem intended for all of us, but that few can hear in the endless tumult of what is called life.”
Launching Today: ‘Palestine +100’
“Ze’ev puts me on display in front of the schoolkids in the playground for half an hour. None of them have ever seen a Palestinian before.”
Dunya Mikhail: ‘Writing It Twice Is My New Original’
“In the beginning, it was an annoying experience, because the poems pulled me right and left (as Arabic and English are written in opposite directions, you know), but when I let them work freely with each other (like a democrat), they actually benefited from each other.”
Sunday Submissions: Propose an ‘Anomaly’ Folio
“Anomaly” is an international literary journal focused most particularly on “especially innovative and experimental literature and arts[.]”
Launching Manara: a ‘MENA Theatre Invasion of the United Kingdom’
“One strand of our work in the future will be to create an archive of Classical Arabic plays in translation, so we will be seeking funding to get some of the plays that don’t yet exist in English translation.”