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Arabic, between Love and War
In Arabic, the word for love حب is one letter shorter than the word for war حرب
Here, translators gather to perform an intimate labour, moving words from Arabic into English, or reversing such direction as language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that
open to rubble, or only air.
These poems reverberate in the space between there and here, silence and voice, original and translation, and the polarities of war and love.
“May the poems gathered here – in translation, and in their original voice – spark introspection, remedy, and acts of imagination in between.”
Yasmine Haj, “To Speak with Each Other” (introduction)
George Abraham, Eman Abukhadra, Omar Aljaffal, Norah Alkharashi, Lamia Abbas Amara, Nour Balousha, Samar Diab, Najlaa Osman Eltom, Miled Faiza (& Karen McNeil), Zeena Faulk, Ibrahim Fawzy, Daad Haddad, Yasmine Haj, Mayada Ibrahim, Rana Issa, Mahmoud Khudayyir, Hiba Moustafa, Suneela Mubayi, Mariam Naji, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nashwa Nasreldin, Kamal Nasser, Nofel, Qasim Saudi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Fadwa Tuqan.
Addressing itself to the subtle but immense interstice between the Arabic words for love and war which differ by only one letter trace presss communitycentric poetry anthology is as much a testament to beauty and survival under the conditions of catastrophe as it is a refusal to perform or fetishize suffering for a white gaze The bilingual collection is further an intergenerational gathering of voices canonical luminaries like Fadwa Tuqan are assembled alongside contemporary lodestars like George Abraham
Alex TanAsymptote
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Dimensions:
146 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * .3in
0.2lb
Published:
December 03, 2024
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ISBN:
9781775256762
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eng
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