Afghanistan is a place on mars
women and children are howling
and no one can help them from the earth
To Malala
A head without Borqa is a head with a bullet
why you took the pencil...
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Mujib Mehrdad
Mujib MEHRDAD (poet, playwright, translator; Afghanistan) is the author of the poetry collections [Gladiators Are Still Dying] (2007; winner of the Afghan Civil Society’s literature contest), [The Fishes Have Fled Our Veins] (2008), and [Audience] (2009), and of the collection of essays [The Rain Passed]. He has translated Ginsberg, Plath, Langston Hughes, Mayakovsky, Tagore, and others, into Dari. He is a board member of the literary organization Kashane Nawesendagan [House of Authors] and teaches Persian literature at Albironi University in Kapisa.
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I don’t remember the Mississippi river and its warm sand media_text
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Writing in eternal battlefields Afghanistan is country of wars. It has been the center of great empires under the Kushans, Ghaznavids, Ghorids, Timurids, Durrani dynasties and so on… in fact, the Silk Road... media_text
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حالا media_text
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[Translated by Hilal Nazki and Mujib Mehrdad] I have come again and am shining like gold media_text
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[Translated by Hilal Nazki and Mujib Mehrdad] The blood in my stomach Inconspicuous pains shimmering from a distance media_text
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