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Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Arab Women's Poems
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First published April 1, 1992
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Kamal Boullata
15 books6 followersKamal Boullata was a Palestinian writer, artist and art historian.
He worked primarily with acrylic and silkscreen. His work was abstract in style, focusing on the ideas of division in Palestinian identity and separation from homeland. He expressed these ideas through geometric forms as well as through the integration of Arabic words and calligraphy.
Boullata wrote poetry and exhibit reviews, and studied and wrote about art history, art theory, and Palestinian arts. He was published often by the Journal of Palestine Studies (JPS). He has written introductions and exhibit reviews for other artists such as Sophie Halaby, Steve Sabella, and ‘Asim Abu Shaqra.
One of Boullata’s most highly regarded books is Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present. It is broken into four parts, Part 1: From Religious to Secular Painting, Part 2: Memory and Resistance, Part 3: Art from the Ghetto, and Part 4: The Evocation of Place. This work represents three decades of Boullata’s scholarly research on Palestinian art and is celebrated as the most comprehensive study on modern Palestinian art.
He worked primarily with acrylic and silkscreen. His work was abstract in style, focusing on the ideas of division in Palestinian identity and separation from homeland. He expressed these ideas through geometric forms as well as through the integration of Arabic words and calligraphy.
Boullata wrote poetry and exhibit reviews, and studied and wrote about art history, art theory, and Palestinian arts. He was published often by the Journal of Palestine Studies (JPS). He has written introductions and exhibit reviews for other artists such as Sophie Halaby, Steve Sabella, and ‘Asim Abu Shaqra.
One of Boullata’s most highly regarded books is Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present. It is broken into four parts, Part 1: From Religious to Secular Painting, Part 2: Memory and Resistance, Part 3: Art from the Ghetto, and Part 4: The Evocation of Place. This work represents three decades of Boullata’s scholarly research on Palestinian art and is celebrated as the most comprehensive study on modern Palestinian art.
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May 22, 2019
"In the labyrinths of insomnia
I hear voices of silence"
- Mona Sa’udi (born 1945), from “Blind city …”
"My loneliness
ages like wine."
- Thérèse Awwad (born 1934), from “My loneliness …”
"Tell me again your name
the memory of evening is blind."
- Nadia Tueni (1935-1983), from “I write a sun …”
"The light of my colors dies.
I draw away
I change to something folding the sea into soft prayer
And madness.
Earth mute
Sky a desert
Death, when shall I be ?"
- Mona Sa’udi (born 1945), from “I left my home …”
"Overwhelm me
she said
to the dream
that I may be reborn
without a road
save the shivering of the heart."
- Mona Sa’udi (born 1945), from “In her heart she planted a tree …”
"leaning against the pulsing surge
of the rain
I make love
to that hunger
deep within."
- Thérèse Awwad (born 1934), from “My loneliness …”
"All my life
I have willed to go forward and have not
advanced beyond
the borders of my grave."
- Saniyya Saleh (1935-1985), from “Exile”
I hear voices of silence"
- Mona Sa’udi (born 1945), from “Blind city …”
"My loneliness
ages like wine."
- Thérèse Awwad (born 1934), from “My loneliness …”
"Tell me again your name
the memory of evening is blind."
- Nadia Tueni (1935-1983), from “I write a sun …”
"The light of my colors dies.
I draw away
I change to something folding the sea into soft prayer
And madness.
Earth mute
Sky a desert
Death, when shall I be ?"
- Mona Sa’udi (born 1945), from “I left my home …”
"Overwhelm me
she said
to the dream
that I may be reborn
without a road
save the shivering of the heart."
- Mona Sa’udi (born 1945), from “In her heart she planted a tree …”
"leaning against the pulsing surge
of the rain
I make love
to that hunger
deep within."
- Thérèse Awwad (born 1934), from “My loneliness …”
"All my life
I have willed to go forward and have not
advanced beyond
the borders of my grave."
- Saniyya Saleh (1935-1985), from “Exile”
November 22, 2021
i was struck in the middle and peeled like a fig
here's the link if yall wanna experience this flavour of grief: https://archive.org/details/womenoffe...
here's the link if yall wanna experience this flavour of grief: https://archive.org/details/womenoffe...
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