Alan Elbaum

From ArabLit Quarterly, Poetry Alan Elbaum, Geniza, Nasir

Poetry in Translation: The 13th Century ‘My Religion—My Wine’

January 17, 2022

The author of the text translated here — one of the two poems by Nasir that appeared in the FOLK issue of ArabLit Quarterly — is a Jewish poet and popular entertainer named Nasir, who enjoyed local acclaim in Mamluk-era Cairo around the year 1300 CE.

From ArabLit Quarterly Adel Khozam, Alaa Murad, Alan Elbaum, Ali al-Jamri, ArabLit Quarterly, Eman Quotah, folk, Jess Martin, Katharine Halls, Leonie Rau, Mariam Qahtani, Mbarek Sryfi, Melanie Magidow, Nicholas Mangialardi, Norah Alkharashi, Omar Al Jadhee, Rawan Maki, Salma Harland, Sonia Nimr, Sonia Sulaiman, Stephen Slessor, Will Pewitt, Yahia Al-Tahir Abdullah, Zainab Almahdi

Launching the FOLK Issue: The Ordinary and Extraordinary That ‘Refuse to Be Erased’

December 15, 2021

“This issue, our last of the year, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral, anti-professional, transgressive, strange, and fantastical. In it, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins, as Alaa Murad writes, ‘refuse to be erased.'”