afikra Conversations: Youssef Rakha
Join this interview with novelist, essayist, poet & journalist Youssef Rakha as part of the afikra Conversations series.Continue Reading
Join this interview with novelist, essayist, poet & journalist Youssef Rakha as part of the afikra Conversations series.Continue Reading
Who swims the ocean is become as brine. Who climbs the mountain is transformed to air.”Continue Reading
Two new dream poems have recently appeared in translation, online.Continue Reading
“The beginning, we choose. / But the end chooses us. / And there is no road but the road.”Continue Reading
“& I didn’t taste her lips / & company didn’t show until the final day I filled the space that’s for your body / consciously or lost”Continue Reading
“What I mean by this is only in English could I fully inhabit and write from the perspective of a woman. I have no idea why, but I’m sure it’s nothing to do with the nature of English itself as a language.”Continue Reading
“If in the classroom you’re able to compare multiple translations of a single work, and/or read essays by translators on their craft, this offers rich and rigorous examples of how choices are made on the level of word, phrase, syntax, diction, metaphor, image, so on. Such examples of precision and multiplicity are ideal for student writers.”Continue Reading
Non-fiction is also something writers of [Arabic] fiction and poetry seem to think they can do with their eyes shut.Continue Reading
Over on The Arabophile, poet/novelist/critic Youssef Rakha makes his way through and around two books by the young Lebanese poet Nazem Elsayed, one of the poetic standouts of the Beirut39 group. Continue Reading
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