The eighth poem in our Palestine Advent series is by Yahya Ashour, translated by Atef Alshaer with the Poetry Translation Workshop.
Gaza Under Siege, by Yahya Ashour.
Yahya Ashour was born in Gaza in 1998. His debut collection, You Are a Window and They Are Clouds, was published in 2018. He studied Sociology and Psychology at the University of Al-Azhar in Gaza.
Atef Alshaer is a Senior lecturer in Arabic Studies at the University of Westminster. He is the author of several publications in the fields of language, literature and politics, including Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World (2016); The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (with Dina Matar and Lina Khatib), 2014; A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba (2019); Love and Poetry in the Middle East (2022) and Language and National Identity in Palestine: Representations of Power and Resistance in Gaza (forthcoming). He has been active translator for the Poetry Translation Centre since 2008.
With thanks to Chris Rose and Natalie Jabbar for inspiring this idea.
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I will be thinking about that one all day.
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Haunting.
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