The fumes of “The Absurd” are spewed across the world so much that makes us think, “We’re just looking at a Surrealistic painting!”
Beautiful Radwa,
Was she bidding farewell to her family & friends when she wrote “Heavier than Radwa”?
Is she gone?
“Let others build the walls of outdated thinking, of wrong polices. Words have the power to overcome walls, real ones and imaginary ones. Our task as writers and poets and translators is to overcome them”
Uwe Friesel/ Germany
What is the connection between Boko Haram in Nigeria and the culture of religious prohibition in our Arab countries?
What is it about women that terrifies extremists, fanatics, and parochial people around the world?
We own what’s ours/ we own “the glory, the beauty, the brightness, and magnificence”.
“In the free travel between cultures / researchers might find about the human essence / sufficient seats for all. Here a margin advances. Or a centre retreats/ the east is not totally east / nor the west is totally west/ as identity is open to multiple ownership / No castles nor trenches.”
My visit to Nablus last month would not have been perfect if I had not visited Fadwa Touqan. Although I felt that this visit might be the last, I was amazed, like I always was, by her sharp memory, her great consciousness, and her profound awareness.