City of Non-Existence
Marie LaBrosse: Introduction to "City of Non-Existence"
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Sheikh Radha, 'Sulaimani, the Haven of the Babans'
Ghada Al-Samman, 'The Eraser'
Mahwi, 'Untitled'
Roseanne Khalaf: Preface to "Beirut: Writing the City"
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Yahya Kemal Beyali, 'Mehlika Sultan'
Mounawar Abbadouchi: 'The City of Mirrors' and 'The Old Mousseline'
Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, 'The Act of Love'
Joanna Abillama: 'The Serpent Queen'
Jameel Al-Zahawi, 'My Honesty'
Aisha Marie Ahmad Aleiou: 'Ishtar'
Bedirhan Gokce, 'Snow'
Nasri Atallah: 'The Room'
Mohammed Omar Othman, 'Fog and Haze'
Sheikh Raza Talabani, 'The Lover's Malady'
Ziad Dallal: 'An Expression of the City'
Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, 'Here and There'
Ghiwa Ali Dandish: 'The Cockroach'
Toufic Sarieddine, 'Letter' and 'The Tour'
Nizar Qabbani, 'The Diary of an Uneducated Dog'
Salmi B. Simitian: 'Dreams of Color' and 'Ghadi's House'
Abdulla Pashew, 'The Peddler and the Pack Mule'
Ahamad Mukhtar Jaff, 'The Issue of Conscience'
Jameel Al Zahawi, 'Equality in Age'
Mohammed Omar Othman, 'The Lady of the Red Dress'
Sherko Bekas, 'When I Was a Child'
Sheikh Raza Talabani, “Five Bricks to the Messiah"
Mohammed Omar Othman: 'A Fall Letter'
Nizar Qabbani, 'I Fear'
Mohammed Omar Othman, 'A Telegram'
Yahya Kemal Beyali, 'Silent Ship'
Abdulla Pashew, 'Children, an excerpt'
Matar, 'Optimism'
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Ghada Al-Samman, 'The Eraser'

Ghada Al-Samman (1942-), 'The Eraser'

(translated from the Arabic by Sivar Qazaz)

I spend my night writing you love letters; The eraser
Then spend my day
Erasing each, word by word.
Your eyes are my golden compasses;
They point me toward the sea of separation!

Al-Samman

poem

City of Non-Existence

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Ghada Al-Samman (1942-), 'The Eraser'

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