Iman Mersal (إيمان مرسال)

احت ا رم ماركس

Language: arabic

Translations: german (Verehrung für Marx), english (Respecting Marx)

احت ا رم ماركس

أما م الفترينات المضيئة
المُزدهر ة بالملابس الداخليّة
لا أستطيعُ أن أمن ع نفسي

من التفكير في ماركس
احترامُ ماركس
هو الشيءُ الوحيدُ المشترك بين من أحبّوني،
وسمحتُ لهم أن يخدشوا – بنس ب مختلف ة -
عرائ س القُط ن المُخبّأة في جسدي.

ماركس
ماركس
لن أُسام حهُ أبد ا.

Iman Mersal

إيمان مرسال

photo © gezett.de

* 30.11.1966, Mit ‘Adlan, Egypt
lives in: Edmonton, Canada

Iman Mersal is considered one of the best young poets writing in Arabic today. She graduated from Mansoura University, and received her MA and PhD from Cairo University. She co-founded Bint al-Ard (Daughter of the Earth), which she co-edited from 1986 to 1992. She immigrated to Boston, in 1998, and then to Edmonton, Alberta with her family in 1999. Mersal serves as Associate Professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern and African Studies at the University of Alberta.

photo © gezett.de

Iman Mersal wrote four books of poems in Arabic. Her works have been translated to Frensh, German, Hebrew and English. She participated in several literary festivals and onferences throughout Europe and the Arab world.

She lives with her husband, ethnomusicologist Michael Frishkopf and their two sons (Mourad and Joseph) in Edmonton, Canada.

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