Poetry

“What do you mean? How can you get married on the quiet?”

They came away until they came

to water, wearied

while overhead the sun searched for a needle

to reattach them to the shadows.

“This Sunday, suggested submissions are literary works geared toward the seven nations targeted by the Donald Trump regime’s travel ban; a finish-your-book fund looking for immigrant writers; and an anthology featuring Muslim voices.”

“At least 6 parents and teachers came and asked me when the English translation of Ghadan/Tomorrow is coming out. There’s so much interest in it and some people bought it even though they can’t read Arabic, so that they can look at the pictures with their kids and retell the story from memory!”

After D.C., Taha will be staged in London, at the Young Vic’s Maria studio, from July 5 to 15.

She doesn’t shy away from addressing the big issues, she said, but she wants to place the individual at the heart of her social commentary.

The Catalyst5 is committed, under the terms of Canada’s Private Refugee Sponsorship program, to supporting Mustafa for his first year in Canada.

Translators must submit “both the source text and the translation. PDF scans of the original text is acceptable. Translators should include a statement indicating the rights status of the original texts.”

In an obscure crowd, an obscene clarity dawns on me.
In the midst of the exquisite engineering of geography’s tumult, a bullet quietly passes through me, at my lower back,