Jazra Khaleed

ΡΕΦΡΑΙΝ

Language: greek

Translations: german (REFRAIN), english (REFRAIN), serbian (REFREN), haitian (REFREN), arabic (اللازمة الشعرية), albanian (REFREN), spanish (REFRÁN), dutch (REFREIN)

ΡΕΦΡΑΙΝ

Με λένε Γ-Ι-Α-Ζ-Ρ-Α
Γεννήθηκα στης Δύσης το σκοτάδι
Λαθραίος μένω σε πείσμα αριστερών
Όμορφα περνά το βράδυ
Τσακίζοντας κεφάλια φασιστών

Translations:

Language: german

REFRAIN

Ich heiße J-A-Z-R-A
bin geboren im finstren Abendland
nenn mich Illegaler den Linken zum Trotz
gemütlich verbring ich den Abend
Faschistenschädel spaltend.

Language: english

REFRAIN

My name is J-A-Z-R-A
Here I’m illegal, in spite of the Left
I was born in the dusk of the West
And this evening is just splendid
For smashing fascist heads

Language: serbian

REFREN

Zovem se J-A-Z-R-A
Rodio sam se u tami Zapada
Živim kao ilegalac u inat levičarima
Provodim prijatno veče
Razbijajući glave fašistima

Language: haitian

REFREN

Non mwen se J-A-Z-R-A
Mwen fèt nan fè nwa Loksidan
Mwen menm ilegal isit la malgre Lagoch
Ala yon bèl sware
pou kraze tèt makout

Language: arabic

اللازمة الشعرية

اسمي ج - ز- ر - ة
أنا هنا بشكل غير شرعيٍّ ,رغم أنف اليساريين
وُلدتُ في عتمة الغرب
و يا لها من أمسيةٍ ملائِمةٍ
لتحطيم رؤوس الفاشيين

Language: albanian

REFREN

Emnin e kam J-A-Z-R-A
Këtu jam ilegal, përkundër të Majtes
U linda në muzgun e Perëndimit
Dhe kjo mbramje asht bash për mrekulli
me dërrmu koka fashiste

Language: spanish

REFRÁN

Me llamo J-A-Z-R-A
Nací en el ocaso de occidente
Clandestino permanezco pese a la izquierda
Y hermosa transcurre la noche
destrozando cabezas fascistas

Language: dutch

REFREIN

Mijin naam is Griekse Y-A-Z-R-A
Geboren in het donker van het westen
Ondanks het linkse striven illegaal
Voel ik me ’s avonds laat het allerbeste
Wanneer ik een fascistenkop verbouw

Jazra Khaleed

* 21.05.1979, Grozny, Russia
lives in: Athens, Greece

Jazra Khaleed (pen name) is a poet, filmmaker, performer and translator. He lives in Athens and writes exclusively in Greek. His works are an indictment of fascism, social injustice, police brutality, and racism in contemporary Greece.

His most recent publications are Requiem für Homs (parasitenpresse, Germany, 2022), Requiem pour Homs et autres poèmes (Marges en Pages, France, 2022), The Light That Burns Us (World Poetry Books, USA, 2021) and μα είν' αυτό ποίηση; (Teflon Books, Greece, 2020). His poems have been widely translated for publications in Europe, the US, Australia, and Asia, and have appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, Lichtungen, Modern Poetry in Translation, Glänta, Die Horen and other publications.

According to The Los Angeles Review of Books, “[Jazra Khaleed] stands up to fascism by writing and performing Greek-language poetry that is unmatched in technical bravura, emotional depth, and political urgency". His performances have been described as “possessing the kind of energy that pervades the riots on the streets of Athens” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “explosive” (Berliner Zeitung) and “wild, energetic and forceful” (junge Welt).

He has won the Soundout! Award for New Ways of Presenting Literature (Germany) and the Crystal Vilenica Prize (Slovenia) and has been awarded residences and fellowships from the Federal Chancellery of Austria, the Kone Foundation (Finland), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), the International Writer’s House Graz (Austria), the Syros International Film Festival (Greece) and Centrale Fies (Italy).

As a founding editor of the Athens-based poetry magazine Teflon, and particularly through his own translations published there, he has introduced to a Greek readership the works of Amiri Baraka, Keston Sutherland, Etel Adnan, Bert Papenfuß, Safia Elhillo, Ann Cotten, Lionel Fogarty, Audre Lorde, Ghayath Almadhoun among many other American, British, Australian, Arab and German-language political and experimental poets.

His short films have been screened at festivals such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Experiments in Cinema (USA), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), Biennial de la Imagen en Movimiento (Argentina), Entrevues Belfort (France), L’Alternativa (Spain), Cooler Lumpur Festival (Malaysia) among others. The film rendition of his poem about the immigrant situation, “The Aegean or the Anus of Death,” won prizes at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and the Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival.

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