Syrian Poets Today and Elsewhere
Join RAWI for the first gathering of its kind, of Syrian poets writing today and from elsewhere in the diaspora.
Syrian poetry
Poetry in Translation: Fadi Azzam’s ‘This Is Damascus, You Sons of Bitches’
“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.”
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”
Another Road for Syrian Poetry
“The divide among poets has added a diaspora to the spatial diaspora, which scattered Syrians around the world.”
10 Things To Remember About Syrian Poetry
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.
‘Voices from the Syrian Tragedy’: Three New Poems
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.