Tagged: Habib Tengour

Poems, a Dialogue & some Translations

 * * * Douglas Glover’s Numéro Cinq blog/site has just published two texts — “5 Movements of the Soul” and “Hodgepotch” — by Habib Tengour in my translation. You can read them here....

Ulysses among the Fundamentalists (3)

And here, the final installment of Habib Tengour’s short fiction extracted from Gens de Mosta: In the afternoon, after they had finished reading the report on morality, he discreetly left the conference to walk...

Maghrebi Lunch Break

First somewhat sunny day in Paris was two days ago, and so Habib Tengour and I went out to Ménilmontant to meet up with some friends at a Kabyle restaurant for lunch. Though we...

Tengour Reading @ Albany U

Below, a YouTube’d snippet of the poetry reading Habib Tengour gave at the University at Albany on 31 March. He is reading the opening section of the poem sequence “Café Marine”: