Before the Arab Summer sets in, four more Spring sowings:
— Amira Hanafi translates "Dawn," another piece from Hamdy El-Gazzar`s revolution/ary series, "Palm-Sized Stories."
— Chris Stone translates Adania Shibli`s short fiction, "The United Transport Company - Jerusalem."
— Anny Gaul reviews Jocelynn Saab`s film, Dunia.
— Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim speaks in about revolution, literature, and the imagination. (Arabic here.)
For those of you who still want more, here`s a poem found scrawled on the side of an old community garden shed in Mechanicsburg, PA:
Late Spring, and the arugula and cilantro now wilts at noon.
The thyme, whose green tendrils were lately so soft and fleshy
Have steeled themselves, thorns against the summer sun.
And over in the rotting pile of compost
The cardamom perfume of coffee grounds.