After four decades of dictatorship where Qaddafi’s handpicked singer dominated the airwaves and stifled a once vibrant musical scene, Libya is now rocking and swaying to a flood of joyous and defiant sounds.
At a recent Libyan pro-revolutio..
Khaled Mattawa is a poet and translater. He teaches at the University of Michigan. Khaled is author of numerous collections of poetry in English, including Ismailia Eclipse (1995), Zodiac of Echoes (2003), Amorisco (2008), and Tocqueville (2010). He has also translated poetry by Amjad Nasser, Fadhil al-Azzawi and Adonis. He is also co-editor of two anthologies, Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing (1999) and Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Arab American Fiction (2004). Mattawa is recipient of multiple Pushcart Prizes, as well as grants and fellowships from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.