#ashraf fayadh

[sagalmahamud]

Ashraf Fayadh, Tense Times

[erosioni]

Ignorerò l’odore del fango e il bisogno di ammonire la pioggia e il fuoco che da allora m’imperversa in petto. Cercherò il giusto conforto per la mia situazione che m’impedisce di leggerti le labbra sebbene lo voglia O di spazzare via le gocce di nebbia dai tuoi petali rossastri O di abbassare il livello di ossessione che mi schiaccia se mi accorgo che non mi sei accanto in quel momento E che non lo sarai… Quando sono costretto a giustificare la mia posizione davanti al silenzio punitivo della notte Farò come se la terra fosse muta, mentre la guardiamo a distanza, e che tutto quel che tra noi è avvenuto non sia stato che un brutto scherzo spinto troppo oltre!

Ashraf Fayadh

[tierracottas]

by Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh (translated into English by Mona Kareem), who was sentenced to death in 2015 for denouncing Islam.

“They accused me [of] atheism and spreading some destructive thoughts into society,” said Fayadh. He added that the book, Instructions Within, published in 2008, was “just about me being [a] Palestinian refugee … about cultural and philosophical issues. But the religious extremists explained it as destructive ideas against God.”

#palestine #palestinian literature #poetry

[la-ragazza-che-ride]

لم تعد الصور القديمة تمثلنا لم تكبر مثلنا لم تنكمش مثل ا جسادنا او تتلاشى بالتدريج مثل عقولنا لقد ا صبحت فقط .. باهتة مثل ذكرياتنا التي لم تعد واقعا منذ تجاوزها الزمن

كوداك, ASHRAF FAYADH

#ashraf fayadh #poetry #poesia #arabic literature #palestinian literature

[alshaytan]

Granddad, I stand naked every day without any judgement, without anyone needing to blow any last trumpet, because I have been sent on in advance. I am Hell's experiment on planet Earth. The Hell that has been prepared for refugees.

Ashraf Fayadh, “The Last Line of Refugee Descendants,” Instructions Within, trans. Jonathan Wright, 2016.

#ashraf fayadh #poetry

[lifeinpoetry]

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[corallorosso]

(...) Sono una parte dell’universo su cui l’universo riversa la sua rabbia, una parte della terra per cuila terra prova assoluta vergogna un miserabile umano verso cui altri esseri umani non possono mantenere la neutralità. La neutralità: un ‘illusione come tutte le virtù di cui parlano gli umani, così vergognosamente teoriche. Verità è un termine inadeguato, proprio come Uomo, e l’amore si dimena alla meglio, come una miserabile mosca intrappolata in un cubo di vetro. La libertà è molto relativa Tutto considerato viviamo in una prigione circolare con le sue sbarre di ozono: e quando veniamo liberati il nostro destino è sicuramente la morte. ... Da tutti i lati sono assediato da soldati dalle uniformi scolorite, sono assediato da leggi, regimi e statuti. Sono assediato dalla sovranità, dal suo istinto altamente concentrato che le creature viventi non possono scrollarsi di dosso. Sono assediato dalla mia solitudine, essa mi soffoca. Sono strangolato dalla depressione, dall’ansia, dalla preoccupazione, dal rimorso, di essere un membro della razza umana, questo mi uccide. ... "Tempi tesi" di Ashraf Fayadh  tradotta da Pina Piccolo

[markstevena]

An Award for Ashraf Fayadh

'An Award for #AshrafFayadh' by Mark Aldrich @oxfamnovib @pen_int @backlashgroup

Last week, PEN International, in affiliation with Oxfam Novib, named Ashraf Fayadh and Malini Subramaniam co-winners of the annual Oxfam Novib/PEN International Free Expression Award. The two join fifty previous winners, including the late Hrant Dink of Turkey.

Ashraf Fayadh remains in prison in Saudi Arabia and was not able to attend the ceremony. He is a poet, an artist, who has faced an array…

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#Ashraf Fayadh #human rights #Saudi Arabia

[arablit]

Mona Kareem Wins 2021 NEA Award to Translate Ra'ad Abdulqadir

Mona Kareem Wins 2021 NEA Award to Translate Ra’ad Abdulqadir

Poet and translator Mona Kareem has won a $12,500 NEA award to support her translation of poetry by Iraqi poet Ra’ad Abdulqadir: Kareem, who has published three collection of Arabic poetry, has also translated in both directions. Her translation of Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within (Arabic to English) was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, while her translation of Octavia…

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[raisboneza]

Abdellatif Laâbi’s letter to Ashraf Fayadh “Je vis des moments difficiles”

Abdellatif Laâbi’s letter to Ashraf Fayadh “Je vis des moments difficiles”

Preface to the French translation of Ashraf Fayadh second collection

November 29, 2019 in Non Fiction, Source: The dreaming machine n 5

My dear Ashraf,

Though I am not accustomed to this, I would like to start this letter with a quote: “courage is a matter of organization”, as André Malraux used to say. Why is that?  You know that I too was jailed for some years and  at a certain point of that…

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di Stefania Mezzina

MARTINSICURO- Il libro di poesie “Epicrisi”, la seconda raccolta di Ashraf Fayadh è fresco di stampa: a pubblicare l’opera del poeta, regista, fotografo, pittore e curatore di mostre di origini palestinesi, nato in Arabia Saudita il 15 luglio del 1980, è stata la Di Felice Edizioni di Martinsicuro, casa editrice fondata da Valeria Di Felice.

Ashraf Fayadh è uno degli artisti di spicco ad Abha, la città in cui ha vissuto e ha partecipato alla Biennale di Venezia, rappresentando l’Arabia Saudita. Nell’estate del 2014, Fayadh è stato processato in Arabia Saudita, per la sua raccolta di poesie (che da allora è stata ritirata dalla circolazione) Le istruzioni sono all’interno, pubblicata a Beirut nel 2008, che commenta le questioni sociali nel mondo arabo, l’esilio, l’amore, la situazione dei profughi.

I tribunali sauditi lo hanno condannato a morte, per il reato di apostasia e per la diffusione di idee blasfeme contro la religione e il profeta, ma dopo una grande campagna internazionale a suo sostegno e molta solidarietà da parte dell’opinione pubblica, le autorità hanno commutato la pena a 8 anni di reclusione e 800 frustate. Fayadh sta scontando la pena in prigione nella città di Abha e sta ricevendo le frustate a più riprese.

«Nelle poesie di Fayadh non mancano riferimenti a una patria assente sia fisicamente sia spiritualmente. Una patria ipotetica che passa davanti ai suoi occhi “calzando la scarpa della libertà”. Con la sua consueta ironia il poeta arriva a considerare fortunati i batteri perché “non hanno un vero problema a trovare una patria!”.

L’esilio che soffre il poeta non è solo fisico, dovuto alle sue origini e alla sua storia personale, ma anche mentale. A nessun luogo sente di appartenere, i luoghi descritti sono spesso bui o desolati, stanze chiuse, magazzino vuoto, luoghi contraddistinti da noia, depressione, solitudine e monotonia cronica» è il pensiero della curatrice e traduttrice Sana Darghmouni, docente di lingua e letteratura araba all’università di Bologna.

#Marche #TMNotizie

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From @1843mag: Behind Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plan for economic and social transformation – which aims to wean the country off reliance on oil revenues, strip down the power of clerics and dispel a reputation for medieval obscurantism and misogyny – is the story of two friends, Ahmed Mater and Ashraf Fayadh. One is now Saudi Arabia’s most illustrious artist and cultural commissar. The other languishes in a dark prison. To read about the rise and fall of Mater and Fayadh, and the political machinations behind the art, click on 1843’s handle and follow the link in their bio. Image: “Antenna (White)” by Ahmed Mater (Courtesy of Athr and the artist). #saudiarabia #ahmedmater #ashraffayadh #art https://ift.tt/2L2hrvT

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From @1843mag: Behind Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plan for economic and social transformation – which aims to wean the country off reliance on oil revenues, strip down the power of clerics and dispel a reputation for medieval obscurantism and misogyny – is the story of two friends, Ahmed Mater and Ashraf Fayadh. One is now Saudi Arabia’s most illustrious artist and cultural commissar. The other languishes in a dark prison. To read about the rise and fall of Mater and Fayadh, and the political machinations behind the art, click on 1843’s handle and follow the link in their bio. Image: “Antenna (White)” by Ahmed Mater (Courtesy of Athr and the artist). #saudiarabia #ahmedmater #ashraffayadh #art https://ift.tt/2L2hrvT

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[daveyone]

Imprisoned Palestinian Poet Ashraf Fayadh Wins PEN Canada One Humanity Award

Imprisoned Palestinian Poet Ashraf Fayadh Wins PEN Canada One Humanity Award

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