Ever Since I Did Not Die
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Ever Since I Did Not Die
Ever Since I Did Not Die
The texts gathered in Ever Since I Did Not Die by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq are a poignant record of a fateful journey. Having grown up in a refugee camp in Damascus, Al-Asheq was imprisoned and persecuted by the regime in 2011 during the Syrian Revolution. He was released from jail, only to be recaptured and imprisoned in Jordan. After escaping from prison, he spent two years in Jordan under a fake name and passport, during which he won a literary fellowship that allowed him to travel to Germany in 2014, where he now lives and writes in exile.
Through seventeen powerful testimonies, Ever Since I Did Not Die vividly depicts what it means to live through war. Exquisitely weaving the past with the present and fond memories with brutal realities, this volume celebrates resistance through words that refuse to surrender and continue to create beauty amidst destructionβone of the most potent ways to survive in the darkest of hours.
Series: The Arab List
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781803094540
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Isis Nusair
- Edited by Levi Thompson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Ramy Al-Asheq is a Berlin-based Syrian-Palestinian poet, journalist and curator. He has published five poetry collections in Arabic, and many of his texts have been translated into Bosnian, Czech, English, French, German, Kurdish, Polish, and Spanish. He launched the German-Arabic magazine FANN in 2017 and was recently selected as a fellow at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and Academy Schloss Solitude. Isis Nusair is associate professor of international studies and womenβs and gender Studies at Denison University, Ohio. Levi Thompson is assistant professor of Arabic at the University of ColoradoβBoulder, where he teaches courses on Middle Eastern literature and culture.
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