{"id":12113,"date":"2014-06-09T04:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2014-06-09T04:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:10:28","slug":"summer-reading-new-arab-poetry-translations-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/summer-reading-new-arab-poetry-translations-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading: New Arab Poetry Translations\u00a0Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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via Arab Literature (in English):<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Writes mlynxqualey:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Not exactly “beach reading,” but you could peruse these on your phone as you listen to the waves.<\/p>\n

\"portrait-of-badr-shakir-al-sayyab-62-cm-diameter\"<\/a>Portrait of al-Sayyab from <\/span>http:\/\/www.suhailart.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab<\/b><\/p>\n

In Jadaliyya’s<\/i> summer “culture bouquet,” they feature the Iraqi poet’s “Whorehouse,” trans. Levi Thompson. (You can read the original here<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhorehouse\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sargon Boulus<\/b><\/p>\n

Also from the “culture bouquet” (a great one this season), a poem by the great Boulus trans. Suneela Mubayi<\/p>\n

“An Attempt to Reach Beirut by Sea”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Muhammad al-Mahgut<\/b><\/p>\n

Also in the summer “culture bouquet,” the Syrian poet’s “Roman Amphitheatres,” trans. Ahmad Diab, from the poet’s\u00a0East of Aden, West of God.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

“Roman Amphitheaters”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammed al-Ajami<\/b><\/p>\n

Qatari poet, serving a 15-year sentence at Doha Central Prison for \u201cinciting the overthrow of the ruling regime\u201d and \u201ccriticizing the Emir\u201d in two of his poems, managed to record and send out a poem from prison last month. It’s been translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.<\/p>\n

“Poem from a Prison Cell”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ahmed Matar<\/b><\/p>\n

The new website “Political Arabic Poetry<\/span><\/a>” promises that,\u00a0over the course of the next few weeks, they will be releasing a collection of nine English translations of poems originally written in Arabic, featuring works by Amal Dunqul, Ahmed Fuad Negm, Ahmed Matar, Mahmoud Darwish, and Sayyid Qutb. (The last one’s a bit of a curveball, but okay.) The project begins with Matar:<\/p>\n

People of Exile<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tareq al-Karmy<\/b><\/p>\n

The New Statesman\u00a0<\/i>has published two poems by al-Karmy, trans. Liz Lochhead. They can both be found in the new collection of Palestinian poetry,\u00a0A Bird is Not a Stone<\/i><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>You can find out more about the project on the book’s blog<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Legend of Mythic, Proud Perfection<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Poverty<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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