‘Avarice and Fury’
spotted lion, tense/
tired of lockdown/
take the cheetah hunting?/
wait and pine/
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Arabic Translation Challenge #4: ‘Like a Lion with Spots’
“Abu Nuwas’s answer to The Tiger King.”
Translation Challenge #3: Shades of Black
“العين طامحة واليد سابحة والرجل لافحة والوجه غربيب”
‘Heal Me with Disease’
“I’m wrong? Please. / I’m ill? Heal me with disease.”
‘Every Father Kills his Son’
“A life of pain / For that, dad, thanks! /No son had I / To say, Life stanks!” – Results from our first challenge.
Weekly Arabic Translation Challenge: The Crime of al-Ma’arri’s Father
هذا جَنَاهُ أبي عليَّ وَمَا جَنَيتُ عَلَى أَحَدِ
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