Poetry Ramallah / Bei Dao in Ramallah the ancients play chess in the starry sky the endgame flickers a bird locked in a clock jumps out to tell the... أكمل القراءة
Poetry In Jerusalem / Mahmoud Darwish In Jerusalem, I mean within the old wall, I walk from one era to another without a memory guiding me. And the prophets there... أكمل القراءة
Poetry A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito / Shatha Abu Hnaish My Husband and I My husband is a gardener Every morning he trims my leaves watering me counting my petals checking my color... أكمل القراءة
Poetry Bringing Back a Melted Person / Wadih Sa’adeh This lake is not water. It was a person to whom I spoke at length, then he dissolved. And I am not trying now... أكمل القراءة
Poetry Martyrs in New Fallacies / Walid el Sheikh We did not rush crying We did not ask the city inhabitants about the reason We Only… Got busy arranging our names According to... أكمل القراءة
Poetry He Asks Me About Love / Maya Abu Alhayyat About moments I waste thinking and missing and choosing the right words About nonexistent things that I live with, knowing they do not exist... أكمل القراءة
Poetry Today Was a Holiday / Azra Abbas One arm hangs limp and empty, the other bends under a load One foot has gone to sleep the other half itches for the... أكمل القراءة
Poetry Two Poems By Khalil Hawi The Cave I have known how the minutes stretch their legs How they freeze, and change into ages I have come to a cave... أكمل القراءة
Poetry The Man Who Drummed at Midnight / Rumi A Minstrel was drumming outside a palace at midnight, announcing the meal that was normally taken at daybreak during Ramadan. While he beat his... أكمل القراءة
Poetry No Answer is Possible – Etel Adnan Etel Adnan wasn’t there. “It’s hard for her to travel these days,” Photi told me. Too bad, I thought. She is an iconic Lebanese-American... أكمل القراءة
