Yasmine Haj

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A Game

Translated into English by Yasmine Haj

Written in Arabic by Majd Kayyal

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I feel that the world today is a very big place, it’s very large I feel that the world today has lots of fun and exciting conversations that take in all the seas of the world. I feel like there are lots of jokes, lots of love affairs, lots of people who love th

A Letter from Gaza – 2054

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Written in Arabic by Mahmoud Omar

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You know, everything has changed, even we have changed, and our problems are not related to power struggles anymore, or to suppressive policies. Ours are of the type that require a dim light, a shrink, and a comfy couch. Is it because we’re now sixty-three? Wasn’t that

Fragments from Gaza / Manal Miqdal

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Writtten in Arabic by Manal Miqdal

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The situation is worse than you could imagine, the thing has nothing to do with courage or resilience or lack thereof. Last night was the toughest since the beginning of the war or the attack on Gaza. This time I didn’t cry – as is my habit – perhaps the contin

Fragments from Gaza / Mahmoud Jawda

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Written in Arabic by Mahmoud Jawda

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I’ll tell you what’s harder than dying from a rocket of the grand type. What’s harder is to receive a call from the Israeli enemy asking you to evacuate your house, to be shelled in ten minutes, imagine with me, ten minutes, and your little history is erased off th

The Struggle Is Patriarchal

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Written in Arabic by Najlaa Eltom

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In 2006, while working as part of the administrative and financial department in the headquarters of one of the UN agencies in Khartoum, I was assigned to follow some affairs at the office in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan State. One of my tasks was to help

Nathalie Handal: Four Poems

Translated into Arabic by Yasmine Haj

Written in English by Nathalie Handal

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 المرآة

عندما ترغب بالعثور عليّ
تذهبْ إلى المرآة – تفكُكْ أزرارَ قميصِك شيئًا فشيئًا
كما كنتُ أفعل تحلُلْ حِزامَك، بسحبةٍ خفيفة
كما كنتُ أفعل تخلَعْهُما – تقفْ بالبوكسر الأسود
كما أحبّ تلمسْ قضيبَك
بعصرةٍ خف

The Butterfly's Shadow

Translated into English by Yasmine Haj

Written in Arabic by Odai Alzoubi

Also in: Arabic, Danish, Japanese
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“I don’t think it has to do anything with age. I’m now forty years old and am still confused. When I was a teenager, I thought my forties were so far down the road. I didn’t even think about what might happen then. In my early twenties, when I first entered the job

بالحديث عن الأعاصير

Translated into Arabic by Yasmine Haj

Written in English by Ama Ata Aidoo

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إلى ميرس موغو وجميع الأفارقة في المنفى ١ أُختاه، هل لاحظتِ
بحلول آب أو أيلول،
في كلّ عام، أنّ أفريقيا
تجمِّع عواصِفَها
وترشُقُ بها عبر الأطلسي نحو
الأمريكيّتين المتعوستَين
والكاريبيّ الأتعس:
غيلبرت، ساليڤان، ڤيكتور، هوغو

هل الوَحدة الأفريقية السطحية جيّدة بما فيه الكفاية؟

Translated into Arabic by Yasmine Haj

Written in English by Taban Lo Liyong

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كيف نتفادى الرصاصة عندما نكون هدفًا متحرّكًا بحدّ ذاتنا؟
هل الوَحدة الأفريقية السّطحيّة جيّدة بما فيه الكفاية؟
يخلق الرجل المعتصم بعض الفقاعات
بينما كلّ ما نحتاجه هو بعض الخبز
يرتدي رجالٌ بدلات
لكنّ ما تحتها ممزّقٌ إرْبًا إرْبًا.
يجري جرْذٌ في

أفراس

Translated into Arabic by Yasmine Haj

Written in English by Catherine Lacey

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حلمتُ بأنّنا كنّا فرسَين لكنّنا لم نتذكّر كيف تعرّفنا إلى بعضنا البعض، ذلك إلى أن سألتني أنت -الفرس الأصغر- إن كنتُ أؤمن بوجود الرّوح وتذكّرتُ دُفعةً واحدةً من كنت أنت ومن كنتُ أنا ورغبتُ بالاعتذار منك لكنّني استدركتُ لأنّني أدركتُ مؤخّرًا أنّني أنزعُ إلى الاعتذار إلى من