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Tania Tamari Nasir

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Tania Tamari Nasir

Tania Tamari Nasir was born in Jerusalem in 1941 and holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and fine arts from the Beirut College for Women (now Lebanese American University)....

She is the co-author of Palestinian Embroidery: Fallahi Cross-Stitch (Munich: Ethnographic Museum, 1990) and the author of "Spring is Here:" Embroidered Flowers of the Palestinian Spring (Ramallah: Turbo Design and The Institute for Jerusalem Studies, 2003) and has translated the work of several prominent Arab writers. She is also a classical singer with a focus on experimental modern Arabic art songs. She lives in Birzeit, Palestine.

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Articles by Tania Tamari Nasir

Time, Place, and Identity in the Literature of the “1948 Region”

By Antoine Shulhut

A contemporary, retroactive review of the cultural identity of the Palestinian Arabs living inside Israel can form a basis for the critical study of the literary culture of this geographic area that is also known as the 1948 Region

Translated from Arabic by Tania Tamari Nasir

Diary

By Mahmoud Darwish

If you were told: you're going to die here this evening What would you do in the remaining time?

Translated from Arabic by John Berger & Tania Tamari Nasir

Longing Inspired by the Law of Gravity

By Fadwa Touqan

I miss the company of books / Their consolation through trouble and joy

Translated from Arabic by Chris Millis & Tania Tamari Nasir

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