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Taline Voskeritchian

Contributor

Taline Voskeritchian

Taline Voskeritchian's prose and translations have appeared in the Nation, the London Review of Books, the Daily Star (Beirut)/International Herald Tribune, Agni Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She teaches writing at Boston University.

Articles by Taline Voskeritchian

The Shoes

By Nassar Ibrahim

Perhaps it is merely a clever joke, but it has become a story, everybody's story.

Translated from Arabic by Taline Voskeritchian

Rababa

By Azmi Bishara

But the rababa is a naked, homeless instrument, and that is why, like beggars who do not have a rababa, the man used a standard tool for panhandling, a plastic plate.

Translated from Arabic by Taline Voskeritchian

When Clothes Were Small

the cutting blade's coldness / gives me my body

Translated from Arabic by Taline Voskeritchian & Chris Millis

The Lanterns of Seville

By Abd el-Salam al-Ujayli

It reminds me of the past, of the time when I too came looking for the world of my ancestors.

Translated from Arabic by Taline Voskeritchian & Tania Tamari Nasir

Fatima

By Haifa` Bitar

Begging is the profession of humiliation and degradation, but Fatima possessed a great sense of dignity and self-worth.

Translated from Arabic by Taline Voskeritchian & Tania Tamari Nasir