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When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
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Arabic
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Dr. Faisal Almehaid artfully disentangles emotions, giving these abstract feelings words, and meaning. These poems progress in a spectrum, exemplifying the different states of need someone can go through. Both in Arabic and English, these poems are different yet portray the beauty of both languages.
8) Majnun Laila
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Arabic
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"Layla and Majnun is a narrative poem based on a semi-historical Arab story about the 7th century Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (or Layla al-Aamiriya). The story had been brought to the stage in the late 19th century, when Ahmed Shawqi wrote a poetic play about the tragedy, now considered one of the best in modern Arab poetry. Majnun lines from the play are sometimes confused with his actual poems." --
19) Adūniyādā
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Arabic
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“I have a book in every wound, and every wound has its ink. My wounds spread in the air, and in every thread of the sun, I feel myself I dangled - I dangled. I threw my love into her arms, and I saw to the horizon, sitting on my chest in confusion I complained to her what he complained to me: a lot He seeks waves from his sea To lead his steps to a port.” “The greatest contemporary Arab poet”
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