Friday Finds: 5 New Translations of Iman Mersal
“Marrying a piano player /
is different from marrying a sailor.”
Iman Mersal
Classic Bulaq: ‘Love and Silence, Rediscovering Enayat al-Zayyat’
This week’s Bulaq is a re-run, the episode focused on Iman Mersal’s “In the Footsteps of Enayat al-Zayyat.”
Bulaq 48: On the Trail of Enayat al-Zayyat
“In 1993, the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal picked up an unknown novel by a forgotten writer from the 60s.”
For National Poetry Day: 10 from New or Forthcoming Collections
Each time I begin to write about love
the other woman reaches out
and pushes my fingers from the keyboard
the lonely woman who lost everything
the wild woman
who looks like me
Friday Finds: ‘How to Find Your Mother In Her Portrait’
“When my mother died in the mid-seventies, her only extant portrait took on a greater significance.”
3 Compelling Memoirs by Egyptian Women Forthcoming in 2018: ‘The Journey’ and Two More
This year, at least three significant memoirs are forthcoming in translation, all of them intimately relevant to women’s lives in 2018, from #metoo to intersectionalism and global solidarity to the fraught spaces between the performance and experience of motherhood.
Where to Find the Best Arab American Poets…
If you’re looking for it, there are a number of places to seek out excellent Arab American poets. They are celebrated individually (Khaled Mattawa just won a major poetry award) and as a group, as in the most recent Banipal (38).