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Mansur Rajih

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Mansur Rajih

Mansur Rajih, born in Yemen in 1958, was a prisoner of conscience from 1983–98. Since then he has been living in exile in Norway. His poetry has been published in Norwegian. A book of his poetry was published in the original Arabic in Yemen in 2005.

Articles by Mansur Rajih

From “Identity”
By Mansur Rajih
You are paid to be a murderer.
Translated from Norwegian by Ren Powell
The Fatherland
By Mansur Rajih
Yemen is a happy country, / the people die standing tall:
Translated from Norwegian by Ren Powell
Another Sky
By Mansur Rajih
Such is exile / Your bottlenecked bottleneck
Translated from Norwegian by Ren Powell
The Wound
By Mansur Rajih
his finger pointing to his heart
Translated from Norwegian by Ren Powell