“I am the star up there that lurks shy and restless in the sky,/ silently chewing on his pale light.”
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Friday Finds: Jan Dost’s ‘A Pleasant Countenance’
“I don’t know how many hours I’d spent in solitary confinement. I was alone with four cold silent walls. I couldn’t hear anyone’s voice in that gloomy cell, and I don’t think anyone could hear me.”
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‘If I Hadn’t Written “Kobani,” I Would’ve Lost My Mind’
“The subjects, the structures, and the writing style are different between my Arabic books and Kurdish ones.”
Read moreFriday Finds: Two by Jan Dost
“I don’t know how many hours I’d spent in solitary confinement. I was alone with four cold silent walls. I couldn’t hear anyone’s voice in that gloomy cell, and I don’t think anyone could hear me.”
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Friday Finds: Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, Alaa Hlehel
The relatively new “Short Story Project” has already published several translations from Arabic, including works by Jan Dost, Waciny Laredj, and Alaa Hlehel.
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