“It is said that blue is an antidote to sexual excitation—and I was a raging bull then. It is also said that blue calms the nerves—and I was on the edge of madness, bad temper was my inheritance, my father was known for it.”Continue Reading
This month: four new translations of Arabic novels from Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.Continue Reading
Fady Joudah has translated three new works by the vibrant Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and children’s-book author Ahlam Bsharat.Continue Reading
“I will look at your back / if you come down a little closer.”Continue Reading
“Maya’s poems are made of such dailiness, the extreme violence of a colonizing force punctuating days filled with humor and compassion and small failures and sweeping loves.”Continue Reading
This Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community will include a panel featuring Khaled Mattawa, Fady Joudah, and Dunya Mikhail as well as a reading by Dunya Mikhail.Continue Reading
“The female protagonist visits him in the mornings, / taps shyly on the window, sweeps the street with a glance. / (Did anyone see her?).”Continue Reading
“You will hear and taste her laughter and also yours. Because laughter is ‘the excess knowledge no one takes seriously,’ the cherished identity smuggled out of psychology and surveilled consciousness.”Continue Reading
In case you have missed it, the special Baffler magazine section on poetry from Palestine, curated by Fady Joudah, continues to unspool.Continue Reading
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