9 Short Works by Saudi Women, in Translation
“In the 1980s, short-story writers, male and female, numbered only a few dozen, but by the beginning of the twenty-first century they were in their hundreds.”
Saudi
Translations of Ashraf Fayadh’s ‘Instructions Within’ Forthcoming in French, English
“Also: Monday, March 21 will be World Poetry Day. To mark this day, PEN International plans to campaign on behalf of Fayadh[.]”
In Turkish Translation, Eşref Feyyâd’s ‘Hikmet’ and Other Poems
“Sevmek bir kuş değil sevgilinin elindeki
Ağaçtaki on kuşa bedel.”
Ashraf Fayadh: ‘On the Virtues of Oil over Blood’
“Black pellets of oil—
circulate throughout your cells”
Ashraf Fayadh: ‘The Name of a Masculine Dream’
“Since when does the wind honor traffic laws?
Since when?
Did the wind ever stop at your red light?”