Reading of Taha Muhammad Aliâ€™s Poem “Revenge” at the 11th Dodge Poetry Festival

by Cole Krawitz [➚] · Sunday, November 26th, 2006

After an extraordinary festival earlier this fall, they posted a reading online by Taha Muhammad Ali in Arabic, and Peter Cole in English, of Taha’s poem, “Revenge.”

Bit of background they offer: In 1948, Taha fled from Galilee to Lebanon with his family when their village came under heavy bombardment during the Arab-Israeli war. A year later, still a teenager, he went back across the border and settled in Nazareth where he still lives, now as an Israeli citizen. When he is not reading and writing poetry, he runs a souvenir shop.

View the reading here.

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2 Responses to “Reading of Taha Muhammad Aliâ€™s Poem “Revenge” at the 11th Dodge Poetry Festival”

that got a standing ovation? yeesh.

—Mobius · November 26th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
[...] Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this fall. The video includes Taha’s poem “Revenge,” read in Arabic, followed by Peter Cole’s remarkable translation. [...]

—Mixed Multitudes » Blog Archive » Important Poetry · November 27th, 2006 at 11:04 am

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