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Mina Nagy: The Palace
Hassan Hajjaj, “Odalisque”. Source: offmag.blogspot.co.ke And you will not understand me, but you will cry. She was trying to scare him off, and naturally he sympathised, like a naïve peasant who’s...
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Julian Gallo: Hoxha’s Children
Alex Majoli, Scutari, Albania, 1997. Source: magnumphotos.com Tirana, Albania — April 11th 1985 1 The foremost leader has died. National mourning. Black flags flutter from the windows along side our...
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Article 8
And once you have FOLLOWED US ON TWITTER, please help yourself to a copy of our signature city map Cairo by Piri Reis, 16th century. Source: Wikipedia 25 January • Abu Dhabi • Arab • Arabic • Arabic...
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Article 7
Your home in the City of the Pyramids: for reservations – that is, SUBMISSIONS – PLEASE EMAIL HERE The truth is, I don’t believe all that much in writing. Starting with my own. Being a writer is...
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Zachary Prong: “Young men accused me of being an American spy”
I made these photos in Cairo during the summer of 2015. The news coming out of Egypt at that time was mostly violent; “Car bomb attack kills Egypt’s top public prosecutor”, “Islamic State ‘behind...
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Joseph Schreiber: And I Will Tell You Something
You said: I’m still here. I just don’t know what to say. But two weeks later, you were gone. And now I sit, words turned stale upon the page. Seems I’ve been here for months, rending sentences into...
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محمود المنيراوي: في السويد
Moises Saman, Malmo, December 22, 2015. Source: magnumphotos.com لا شيء يحدثُ معي ليُكتَب أعني أنني لا زلتُ أتنفس لكن شيئاً لا يحدث وكأنني متجمد أليس هذا طبيعياً في السويد؟ أن يتجمد المرء كأنه في...
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Noor Naga: Boy Does Not Like To Share
Federico Giovannini, from “You and I”. Source: lensculture.com Knowing a father’s belt has snap- ping metal teeth, one does not have to think of kneeling. One kneels. One kneels to please before the...
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كارول صنصور: حب تشلابي
Ferdinando Scianna, Bora Bora. Source: magnumphotos.com لما كان الحنين يهجم كنت أتخلى عن كل شي في الكون وتلبسني رغبة الجلوس على عتبة بيتنا جنب الياسمينة الرافضة للموت تمامًا أو العيش تمامًا أسمع صوت...
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Robin Moger Does Sargon Boulus
Meeting with an Arab poet in exile Cedars of Lebanon, American Colony (Jerusalem) Photo Dept, 1900-20. Source: loc.gov At that outcast and lonely hour, that hour of night when choices narrow until each...
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Robin Moger Does Ahmad Yamani
Tomorrow the village market day By Youssef Rakha. Leukerbad, Switzerland I will go to the spring where you slip away to fill your jar everyone at the market and me by the tree we maintain twenty metres...
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أدهم القاضي: نصان
Jonas Larsson Folkeson, from “Polarity”. Source: lensculture.com (أنا) اختزال شخصي في صورة لعبتي المفضلة أقص هنا وأضيف هناك لكن الصورة لا تزال غير مناسبة أكسر اللون السمني بالكثير من الدماء وأبكي أعيد...
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علي لطيف: لورينزو لابومبا
Jean Geoffroy Ducourtioux, La Famille et l’alcool n°11, 1900. Source: reseau-canope.fr سمعت هذه القصة من سليمان قناو الذي سمعها بأذنيه من مصور عمل لعشرين عامًا في القناة الوطنية ويعيش في فيرونا. لم ير...
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Robin Moger Does Wadih Saadeh
Horses at the door Eugène Delacroix, “Two Horses Fighting in a Stormy Landscape”, 1828. Source: clarkart.edu Must this go on forever? The wind perpetual gesture and the hand that slips from me...
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تشارلز سيميك ترجمة إسلام حنيش
Natia Rekhviashvili. Source: lensculture.com مرايا الرابعة صباحًا لابد أن تأتيها عن طريق جانبي في الغرف التي يشبّكها الظل، تسترق نظرة إلى فراغها دون أن تمكنها من النظر إليك بالمقابل. . السر أنه حتى...
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أوديسياس إيليتيس للفلانتاين، ترجمة مينا ناجي
Nan Goldin, Blue, from “Blood on my Hands”. Source: sleek-mag.com المونوجرام * سأكون مفجوعًا دائماً – أتسمعينني؟ – من أجلكِ، وحدك، في الفرودس. . I القدرُ، مثل محولجي القطار، سيغير اتجاه خطوط الكف حتى...
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Joe Linker: Milk
Herbert List, Germany, 1960, “Carnival on skis”. Source: magnumphotos.com A milkman delivered milk bottles to the house a couple of days a week, came into the yard through the side gate, white uniform,...
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كارول صنصور: الجنة المقفلة
By Youssef Rakha ألفان من رسائلنا وأزيد أحتفظ بها وأحفظ بعضها عن ظهر قلب . لم تكن رسالتك الأولى مفاجئة فقرأتها كما أردت ان أفهمها “صلّيني” فأجبت . رسالتك الثالثة عشر كانت بدون شك تبحث عني بذرة العذاب...
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Belal Hosni: Forest Road, Western Alexandria/The God Abandons Anthony
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive—don’t...
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Yahia Lababidi: Three Poems
Chant Avedissian’s, from “Icons of the Nile”, 2010. Source: qulture.com Allegiances I am Destiny’s son loyal by his side (I never wander long) . Life is as remote to me as Destiny is intimate: an ache...
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