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Title Making mirrors : writing/righting by and for refugees / edited by Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson.

Publication Info. Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2019.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.8199206 M289 2019    ---  Available
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Description 121 pages ; 23 cm
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Summary "An anthology of poems by refugees and those affected by the refugee crisis of the Middle East, compiled by a Palestinian poet and aid worker, Jehan Bseiso, and Becky Thompson, a US-based poet who has volunteered in refugee camps in Greece"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Just take the boat, habeebi. In the belly of the sea / Abbas Sheikhi -- Splitting/siblings / Becky Thompson -- An algebra come home / Fady Joudah -- The key of return / Baha' Ebdeir -- It is snowing outside / Mohsen Emadi -- Migrant boat / Abu Bakr Khaal -- Mediterranean blue / Naomi Shihab Nye -- No search, no rescue / Jehan Bseiso -- Villages have names. Leaving my childhood home / Zeina Azzam -- Colors for the diaspora / Zeina Azzam -- From genesis / Fadwa Souleiman -- My father is the sea, the field, the stone / Ruth Awad -- Ghazal: back home for Syria, September 2015 / Zeina Hashem Beck -- Naming Things for refugees, September 2015 / Zeina Hashem Beck -- Guns, McDonald's, Steak knives, Journalists, Truck wheels, Bullets, Suicides Army boots, Home / Rewa Zeinati -- I want my house to stand / Sharif S. Elmusa -- My people's story / Ibtisam Barakat -- A Chouf lament / Adele Ne Jame -- Beit / Nathalie Handal -- After Aleppo / Jehan Bseiso -- To fir into our backpacks. I will look for myself and search for it / Sanaa Shuaibi -- Oh sea don['t cry and make us cry / Sanaa Shuaibi -- Fragment / Lena Khalaf Tuffaha -- Stories from the sea: Eftalou, Lesvos / Angela Farmer -- Exile, edge / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Wound of the homeland / Fatma Al Hassan -- An update of our fall / Sharif S. Elmusa -- Little dreams / Sanaa Shuaibi -- The facts are faces. What she says / Gbenga Adesina -- Disappearances / Golan Haji -- States of being in Holy Land / Ahmad Almallah -- Oncologist / Mohja Kahf -- 140 / Hajer Almosleh -- Nieces and nephews / Marilyn Hacker -- Under the sky of Lampedusa / Marisa Frasca -- Exodus / Nora M. Barghati -- Aylan / Sara Saleh -- Interlude / Adele Ne Jame -- Tell me / Merna Ann Hecht -- Countertop / Jose A. Alcantara -- On the death of other people's children / Hayan Charara -- Sailing to eternity / Bronwen Griffiths -- African Titanics / Abu Bakr Khaal -- Psalm for the Balkan route / Khaled Mattawa -- Psalm for arrival / Khaled Mattawa -- Psalm for the medic / Khaled Mattawa -- Psalm for the deportee / Khaled Mattawa -- The lost / Eman Abdelhadi -- The world grows blackthorn walls / Sholeh Wolpé -- Kiss the jasmine / Saad Abdullah -- Welcome to America / Sara Abou Rashed -- All necessary measures / Zoe Holman -- Misplaced home / Omar Mousa Alsayyed -- The corridor / Fouad Mohammed Fouad -- Who by fire / Mohja Kahf -- Squatters' rights / Becky Thompson -- A song for Alef / Ibtisam Barakat -- The outsider / Sholeh Wolpé -- Afterwords / Sinan Wolpe.
Subject Refugees -- Middle East -- Poetry.
Exiles' writings, Middle Eastern.
Middle Eastern poetry -- 21st century.
Middle Eastern poetry. (OCoLC)fst01020349
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Author Bseiso, Jehan, editor.
Thompson, Becky W., editor.
ISBN 9781623719784
162371978X

 
    
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