Utopia is a reality where every body can meet one another without loosing one self.Edouard Glissant
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http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-black/the-black-blog/2012/07/night-blindness
DNA. By Mazen Maarouf
There’s one way
to scream..
remember that you are Palestinian.
One way to scrutinize your face
in a bus window as date trees and porters flicker past
and break your reflection.
One way
to reach the ozone layer
lightly, like a helium balloon
or to cry
because you’re a bastard.
One way
to place your hands over the breasts of the one you love
and dream
of faraway things:
a small flat in a suburb of Paris, the Louvre,
loads and loads
of loneliness and books.
One way to die:
inciting the snipers
in the early hours of the morning.
To call your cheating girl
a whore.
To smoke weed in a lift,
alone, at eleven o’clock at night;
to write a miserable poem in the bathroom.
One way
to scream in the gutter
where your face waves again
in a toxic puddle
where you remember, in one way,
you are definitely nothing
but
Palestinian.
Arab Poets in Engilsh Series
Copyright Mazen Maarouf
In a society obsessed with imagery, it’s not just what we wear that comes under scrutiny
Crane TV interview of
Michael Salu
Artistic Director Granta
ON THE ISSUE OF BEANS AND MEAT
Thanks to medical advance
Dr. Mohsin can now say
that the Egyptian people specifically
should munch on beans.
Further more Dr. Mohsin says,
“surely meat is poison.
It increases stomach diseases
and habitualises robbing.
Causes man to sleep more
and screws up all his appointments.”
And generally it is known that those who eat meat
go to hell forever!
Dear chubby Dr. Mohsin
Mr irresponsible source!
Your one of our great minds
and the world is in great need of your mind
what is your esteemed opinion of,
that crazy man who screams?
Leave us to die eating meat
and you can keep the beans.
This is an official introduction to my new series inspired by Al-Jazeera’s Poets of Protest. in response to this incredibly enlightening short documentaries on Arab ‘revolutionary’ poets I have decided to post a series of poems by Arab poets that have been translated in English.
Enjoy
Elmi Ali
Long Live The Dead Queen
By South African visual artist Mary Sibande
Mary lives and works in Johannesburg and her Johannesburg Art City World Premiere Annual Exhibition Premiere. ’Long Live The Dead Queen’ launch in 2010 to coincide with the World Cup and consisted of 19 giant billboards (building-wraps) placed around inner-city Jo’burg converting the city into a gallery.
