MENAWA will be back March 16th to chat about Haji Jabir’s IPAF-nominated BLACK FOAM We’ll be joined for a Q&A by the novel’s co-translator, Marcia Lynx Qualey! Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com for […]
Haji Jaber’s Black Foam is full of diverse cultural, linguistic, and musical landscapes. It opens in Addis Ababa, Eritrea, one of the final stages in our main character’s journey from his tangled past […]
“He placed the suitcase lightly into the tray, and then took off to meet it on the other side. “
“I learned to read and write late. I grew up in Saudi Arabia—which is where we migrated because of the war in Eritrea—without official papers, so I couldn’t find a school to accept me, despite all the efforts of my mother, who went around to the schools in Jeddah to no avail.”
