Middle East 4 ChangeTwo poems from prison: Nazim Hekmat
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Letters From A Man In Solitary 1 I carved your name on my watchband with my fingernail. Where I am, you know, I don’t have a pearl-handled jackknife…
On Iraqi Playwright Yusuf al-Ani
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Celebrated Iraqi playwright and actor Yusuf al-Ani (1927-2016) is at the center of the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, which has…
Book Review: Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Charles R Larson. Syria’s gut-wrenching civil war serves as the background to Khaled Khalifa’s award-winning new novel, Death Is Hard Work, though incidents in the story often appear…
Poems by Ahmad Shamlu, Iranian poet
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
“Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name, Alef Bamdad, is among the most influential Iranian literary voices of the twentieth century and widely known as the father…
Arabic poetry: Five Poems by Mu’ayyad al-Rawi
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Translated by Sinan Antoon Posted by Jadaliyya Dream I dreamt of a field of butterflies Where a child is jumping in a meadow of flowers A butterfly embroidered…
Poems by two poets from Iraqi Kurdistan
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Three Poems by Hero Kurda translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Pshtewan Kamal Babakir and Shene Mohammed Posted on World Literature Today July 20§18. You in Me On the shore…
A Poem by Ahmad Yamani, Egyptian poet.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Translated by Robin Moger. My sister screamed in the night Take me to my brother’s house And there she screamed that same night No no! Take me back…
Poem by Sukaina Habiballah: ‘Everything in You Grew, But Not Your Hand’
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Translated by Robin Moger. Posted on ArabLit May 25, 2o18. Over at Youssef Rakha’s Cosmopolitan Hotel, there are six poems in Robin Moger’s translation, by Moroccan writer Sukaina…