The video was taken on October 19, when Hashem Beck read at the Rugby Tavern in London as part of the London launch of her Laureate's Choice Anthology: There Was and How Much There Was.
Bulaq 23: ‘Poems That Cross Language and Time’
"We focused our talk on her "duets," recent works that move between Arabic and English."
Friday Finds: Zeina Hashem Beck’s Bilingual ‘Duets’
But for non-Arabic readers of The Lifted Brow, there's also no "need" to have the Arabic. You could hear one melody, without the other, and that too could be a privileged mode of reading.
