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Podcast: BULAQ | بولاق
Episode: Poems from Palestine
Description: We read from the work of Palestinian poets Maya Abu Al Hayyat, Fady Joudah, Asmaa Azaizeh and Najwan Darwish, who writes: “Death has liberated me/ from the shackles of our small jailers,/ just as poetry has liberated us/ from the greatest jailer–time.”Show NotesIn Palestine these days, the olive harvest is under assault from Israeli settlers. Six prominent Palestinian human rights and civil socierty NGOs have just been designated terrorist organizations. Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's You Can Be The Last Leaf, Trans. Fady Joudah, is forthcoming from Milkweed EditionsNajwan Darwish...