"Rafaa goes to Alexandria once a year to remember his joyful youth. His friend
was being beaten by a gang, and to defend him, your nephew stabbed one of
them in the shoulder. Her third child's right arm ended at the elbow. The old
house is ..."
"This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard.It will bury its sons in open countrygeneration after generation,and it will forgive its despot...It will not be the Iraq that once held the name.—from "A Vision"Living his life in exile—a series of forced departures from numerous countries—Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef also writes outside the long-standing forms of traditional Arabic poetry. In the words of Salma Khadra, a critic of Arabic poet ..."
"This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, h ..."
Miracle Maker(1st Edition) The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Lannan Translations Selection Series) by Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Mr KhaledMattawa, Fadil Azzawi Hardcover, 130 Pages, Published 2003 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-929918-44-7, ISBN: 1-929918-44-5
Dinarzad's Children(1st Edition) An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American FictionAn Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction by Pauline Kaldas, KhaledMattawa Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-781-6, ISBN: 1-55728-781-3
"In The Thousand and One Nights it is ShahrazadÂ's sister, Dinarzad, who each night asks for a story. This collection of twenty-four modern tales by eighteen authors offers up a mix of previously published and new works, creating a literary road map to Arab American literature today.Here authors of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Egyptian, and Libyan descent, some with established reputations, others new young writers, tell tales about M ..."
The Charge(1st Edition) by Patrick Donnelly, KhaledMattawa Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2003 by Ausable Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931337-06-9, ISBN: 1-931337-06-3
"friends Martha Rhodes, Roger Fanning, Joan Aleshire, Carl Dennis, Ellen Bryant
Voigt, Peter Turchi, Kevin Mcllvoy, J. D. McClatchy, Amy Grimm, D. Nurkse,
Frazier Russell, Ellen Dudley, Daniel Tobin, Adrian Blevins, Gary Lilley, Amelia
Cox, Robert Thomas, Randall Couch, Rynn Williams, Tracy Hyland, Angela
Rydell, Willa Rabinovitch, Sirriya Din, Clifford Browder, Dinah Stevenson,
Richard Pierce, Francine Friedman, and Maury Cohen. I' ..."
"Maram al-Massri is an Arab love poet for the modern age. She writes short, seductive lyrics of astonishing clarity and piercing candour, stringing them together like pearls in a story chain. This first English translation of her work draws together poems from two sequences. Her red cherry is like red lips, a fruit or drop of blood offered for the reader to taste in the poems, but abandoned to the coldness of the white-tiled floor, the w ..."