Almost a decade ago, Saadi Youssef began his poem "Imru` al-Qays` Grandson" by asking: "Is it your fault that once you were born in that country? / Three quarters of a century / and you still pay from your ebbin..
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Khalil Sweileh: from Barbarians' Paradise
[The following excerpts are from Khalil Sweileh’s Barbarian’s Paradise (Jannat al-barabira) (Cairo: Dar Al-‘Ayn, 2014). The book is structured as a journal chronicling life in Damascus; the entries s..