From the Archives: Another Road for Syrian Poetry
“I have no need of a wall clock / or a pocket diary: / I know the times of my screams”
Syria
Golan Haji’s ‘The Same Silence’
A spider thread / fastens your heart / to the book of flesh.
‘Hara Hotel’: On Centering the Western Narrator and Stories About Syrian Refugees
“It reminds us of the colonial narratives advancing how the colonized people are in desperate need of saving.”
#WiTMonth Conversations: Shahla Ujayli and Getting Raqqa Back Through Writing
“Raqqa is no longer the city I knew; I belong to a place that no longer exists. I try to get it back through writing.”
Friday Finds: Rasha Omran Poetry Collection Free, Online
Each time I begin to write about love
the other woman reaches out
and pushes my fingers from the keyboard
Syrian Poet and Actor Fadwa Souleiman, 45
“For if you have crossed
So have we all”
Open Letter from Syrian Author Khaled Khalifa
Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, author of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted In Praise of Hate, is circulating an open letter that has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Albanian, […]
Arabic Poetry Friday: Tamim Barghouti’s Latest, Submission Suggestions, Second Graders Read Adonis
Zeinobia has posted a new poem by Palestinian-Egyptian poet Tamim Barghouti, son of Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour and Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti. The poem is “يا شعب مصر.” Tamim Barghouti […]
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