Articles tagged " Middle East"

When Clothes Were Small (Mag: Articles)

By Tamer Fathy | January 1, 2006

NOTE: This poem is taken from a debut collection published in 2005, entitled Yesterday I Lost A Button. All of the poems in the book revolved around clothes-their personalities, their memories, and their…...

Translated from Arabic by Taline Voskeritchian and Chris Millis

Flirting with The Moon (Mag: Articles)

By Haggag Hassan Oddoul | January 1, 2006

NOTE: Haggag Hassan Oddoul (born Alexandria, Egypt, 1944) an ethnic Nubian author--who writes in Arabic--did construction work on the Aswan High Dam and has served in the Egyptian armed forces during two…...

Translated from Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins

I Look Around Me (Mag: Articles)

By Iman Mersal | January 1, 2006

NOTE: Iman Mersal was born in 1966 in a small village in the Delta. A graduate of Mansura University, she was co-editor from 1985 to 1988 of the independent feminist magazine, Bint al-Ard (Daughter of…...

Translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

I Have A Musical Name (Mag: Articles)

By Iman Mersal | December 30, 2005

Maybe the window I sat by foretold an unusual glory. I wrote on my notebooks: Iman . . . A student at: Iman Mersal Elementary School. Neither the teacher's rod nor the laughs that leapt from the desks…...

Translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

from “Identity” (Mag: Articles)

By Mansur Rajih | August 23, 2005

You who will murder me, wait. Look into my eyes before you begin-or end- It's the same for me. It might be that you reconsider. You, who are formed by remorse whose breath is the issue of accident,…...

Translated from Norwegian by Ren Powell

A Man’s Staff (Mag: Articles)

By Fatima Yousef al-Ali | February 1, 2005

I don't know why I was upset when my husband reached for the stick, grasping it and starting to twist it around. I gave him a warning look, but Ahmad is extremely proficient at avoiding my warning…...

Translated from Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins

from Maryam of the Stories (Mag: Articles)

By Alawiyya Subuh | February 1, 2005

The whole city gave up on sleep that night. Explosions sealed up ears and filled the city sky, turning the anticipated weekend into a nightmare. Then Monday came and the shelling calmed, so I goaded my…...

Translated from Arabic by Nirvana Tanoukhi

Edward and the First Geography Lesson (Mag: Articles)

By Najem Wali | February 1, 2005

I still remember him like it was yesterday: a small man, elegant in his own special way, entirely different from traditional men's elegance, such as is found in a suit and tie. He used to buy his clothes…...

Translated from Arabic by Jennifer Kaplan

What’s New? (Mag: Articles)

By Dunya Mikhail | September 1, 2004

I saw a ghost pass in the mirror Someone whispered something in my ear I said a word, and left. Graves scattered with the mandrake seeds. A bleating sound entered the assembly. Gardens remained hanging.…...

Translated from Arabic by Elizabeth Ann Winslow

The Chaldean Ruins (Mag: Articles)

By Bud P. | September 1, 2004

Ascetic he emerges from its belly to the grave. His days are not entered on the calendar and he does not gather the things that are scattered. Earthquakes do not shake him nor wink at death without him.…...

Nonmilitary Statements (Mag: Articles)

By Dunya Mikhail | September 1, 2004

1 Yes, I did write in my letter that I would wait for you forever I didn't mean exactly "forever" I just included it for the rhythm. 2 No, he was not among them. There were so many of them! More than…...

Translated from Arabic by Elizabeth Ann Winslow

Groans (Mag: Articles)

By Faraj Bayraqdar | January 1, 2004

1 Here I am you alone In this mad, gaping Hell Here I am you alone and death altogether With its predators and its seers and the informers Perhaps I am arriving at The limit of my possibilities For you…...

Translated from Arabic by Shareah Taleghani

An Alphabetical Formation (Mag: Articles)

By Faraj Bayraqdar | January 1, 2004

Alif You're not beginning . . . It's an eternity, you know . . . I mean, the ever-after, you know No matter, then. Raise your cavalry But don't set out for the horizon, Or the sea . . . or…...

Translated from Arabic by Shareah Taleghani

The Fish (Mag: Articles)

By Ahmad Shamlou | July 2, 2003

I think my heart has never been like this so warm and red. I feel even in the worst moments of this fatal night several thousand sun-springs in my heart surge up from deep certainty. I feel in every nook…...

Translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand

Iran as Cinema (Mag: Articles)

By Salar Abdoh | July 1, 2003

The movie theater I found myself in was called Freedom; it stood on the corner of two main boulevards that, like the majority of streets in Tehran, are named after martyrs of the revolution: Martyr Beheshti,…...

Translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand

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