ترجمات

ALAA HASANIN – Translated by: Ibrahim Al-Sharif. Such a sad thing it is for a person to have five fingers, a heart that looks like a lump in an old shirt and friends like toothache.     Everyday the sun rises, pale, food turns to ash in my mouth and how hard it becomes to…

ALAA HASANIN – Translated by: Ibrahim Al- Sharif As for me, out of all the children, the moon never followed me home butterflies never woke me whenever I would doze off on the grass to get up and chase after them, and my baby teeth never became stars that would wave at me from afar….

ALAA HASANIN – Translated by: Ibrahim Al-Sharif.   When I die I want to become a boat and sail in blueness. I want, I, the dryness made out of the sadness of the pavements mothers’ rough slaps and lonely steps, to become a sunset and sail towards myself.   Fathers reserved our marble graves and…

ALAA HASANIN -Translated by: Ibrahim Al-sharif   We don’t have mothers we have sins, gravel over the pathways and salt in the old wounds   we don’t have friends we have a long echo after our long call, ghosts that leave and don’t return, seats we lend to passers by and empty endings for the…

ALAA HASANIN- Translated by: Ibrahim Al- sharif     I am alive inject me with morphine. For nineteen years my heart has been writhing like an epileptic.   I am alive and nineteen years are no a small thing.   The long days the many people and the names hard to remember the things I…