V-Day Friday Finds: ‘And He Ate the Girl and Tore Her Apart’
One day, the father said to his daughter, “My darling, I want to get married.”
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A Talk with Poet Golan Haji: ‘Languages Never Draw Geographical Boundaries’
” Jaziri wrote poetry with one set of alphabets which at that time were used in four languages: Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Sometimes, he used the four languages in one couplet. His poems are still recited and sung by Kurds. That coexistence of languages was quite natural, the alluring music was convincing, although I sometimes understood almost nothing.”
Al-Bayati: ‘When I Met al-Sayyab in 1947’
“His illusions, his distant dreams, and his winged fantasies seemed to flutter quietly with emotion and land on his poems, leaving their enchanting colorful feathers on them.”
Poems and Ancestors: Huda Fakhreddine Translates Jawdat Fakhreddine
“I told my wife, now that we have reached sixty together — / with myself a bit ahead of her,/ we will be living from now on/ the most wonderful decade of our lives . . .”
Which 9 Arab Poets Are Featured in the New Two Lines Anthology ‘Home’?
“Home,” a new bilingual collection of contemporary Arabic poetry, is set for a September release, and it features work from nine poets, hailing from eight different countries, with an emphasis on “the minutiae of everyday life—the pain, the pleasure, the uncertainty, the ennui.”
New Poetry: ‘From Gaza, Answering Darwish’
From Gaza, Answering Darwish By Basman Eldirawi with Mahmoud Darwish, translations by Ibrahim Muhawi In March, spring rains return, first cold, then warm. We think it’s the time to […]
Ahmad M. Ahmad on Translating Nathalie Handal into Arabic
“The biggest difference is Nathalie’s poetic techniques are unfamiliar in Arabic. As a translator, I have tried to communicate these techniques faithfully, to preserve the poet’s tone and breath, to preserve the fine, close thread that connects the technique to the essence of the poem.”
Lit & Found: On Humor in Poetry and Translation
“If you are trying to avoid reproducing violence or trauma as it is, if you are trying to distill something in it that evokes something that makes it relatable, or accessible to a stranger—to make it vulnerable—humor plays a beautiful role there.”
Palestinian Literature: Anti-Racist Approaches for English Teachers
Editor’s note: The anthology A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba, ed. Atef Alshaer, which Ali Al-Jamri recommends in this essay, is currently available free as an ebook […]
