Remembering Mourid: 10 in Translation, Online
A selection from the prose and poetry by Mourid Barghouti available in translation, online.
A selection from the prose and poetry by Mourid Barghouti available in translation, online.
Palestinian poet and memoirist Mourid Barghouti — widow of the great Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) — died on February 14, 2021.
Last week, on what would’ve been Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour’s 73rd birthday, Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti announced a new collection of her work.
Assembly Journal, for their “five books” series, asked me to come up with a list of five Arabic books. The field was too dizzyingly wide.
Even when I narrowed my topic to “memoirs and not-quite-memoirs,” it was a difficult winnowing process: What about Galal Amin’s Nectar of the Years? Well, it hasn’t been translated into English, so that’s that, I suppose. Sayyid Qutb or Huda Shaarawi’s memoirs, for their historical and political importance? Taha Hussein’s classic The Days? (But hasn’t everyone already read The Days?)
Which is was why I was particularly grateful that the British-Libyan poet, surgeon, and blogger Ghazi Gheblawi recorded his impressions of last night’s Tamim Barghouti, Mourid Barghouti, Ahdaf Soueif event via Twitter.
Aha! You’re expecting me to say Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, which I would, except you already know you want to read Barghouti’s follow-up memoir, which should be out in English next fall from AUC Press. (The translation, I’m told, is being done by Humphrey Davies.)
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