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Iman Mersal (إيمان مرسال)

احت ا رم ماركس

  • 1 احت ا رم ماركس | Translations: deen
  • 2 الجَلْطة | Translations: deen
  • 3 يُحدّد النقطة الضعيفة | Translations: deen
  • 4 [Fragments] | Translations: deen
  • 5 الش رّ | Translations: de
  • 6 فكرة البيوت | Translations: de
Language: arabic
Translations: german (Verehrung für Marx), english (Respecting Marx)
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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
From: Mamarr mu'tim yasluh lita'allum al-raqs
(Ein dunkler Gang genügt, um tanzen zu lernen)
Dar Sharqiyat, 1995
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2013
Categories: history, memory

Translations:

Language: german

Verehrung für Marx

Vor erleuchteten Schaufenstern,
in denen Dessous blühen,
muss ich immer an Marx denken.

Die Verehrung für Marx
war das Einzige, was alle verband,
die mich geliebt haben
und denen ich – in unterschiedlichem Maße – erlaubte,
an den Baumwollpuppen in meinem Körper zu kratzen.

Marx,
Marx,
ich werde dir nie verzeihen.

Aus dem Arabischen von Leila Chammaa
Language: english

Respecting Marx

Facing bright storefronts
flourishing with panties
I cannot stop myself
from thinking of Marx.

Respecting Marx
is the only thing all those who loved me shared
and I have allowed them all, in varying degrees,
to claw at the cotton dolls
hidden in my body.

Marx,
Karl Marx,
I will never forgive him.

Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
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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.

Publications
  • اتصافات

    القاهرة: دار الغد, 1990

  • ممر معتم يصلح لتعلم الرقص

    طبعة أولى

    القاهرة: دار شرقيات, 1995

  • المشي أطول وقت ممكن

    القاهرة: دار شرقيات, 1997

  • جغرافيا بديلة

    القاهرة: دار شرقيات, 2006

  • These are not oranges, my love

    selected poems

    Riverdale: Sheep Meadow Press, 2008

  • حتى أتخلى عن فكرة البيوت

    القاهرة: دار شرقيات, 2013

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