Syrian Poets Today and Elsewhere
2022-03-21
Join RAWI for the first gathering of its kind, of Syrian poets writing today and from elsewhere in the diaspora.Continue Reading
Poetry in Translation: Fadi Azzam’s ‘This Is Damascus, You Sons of Bitches’
2022-01-12
“She has enough patience to wait for a climax with the force an earthquake, and enough shoes and slippers hanging in al-Hamidiyah market to whack fifty deserving dictators.”Continue Reading
From the Archives: Another Road for Syrian Poetry
2021-04-14
“I have no need of a wall clock / or a pocket diary: / I know the times of my screams”Continue Reading
Another Road for Syrian Poetry
2020-06-27
“The divide among poets has added a diaspora to the spatial diaspora, which scattered Syrians around the world.”Continue Reading
10 Things To Remember About Syrian Poetry
2014-08-01
To celebrate the launch of the “Critical Muslim’s” Syria issue, editor Robin Yassin-Kassab has made a list of “10 things to remember about Syria” that trends toward the positive: Maté, sufis, poetry, fatteh. ArabLit focuses on, No. 4, the poetry.Continue Reading
‘Voices from the Syrian Tragedy’: Three New Poems
2014-02-24
Fawaz Azem has translated three new Syrian poems — one from Dima Yousf and two from Nihad Sayed Issa — all responding, in some way, to the nation’s current landscape.Continue Reading
