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Nizar Kabbani

Searching for You by Nizar Qabbani (Kabbani)

July 12, 2019 / zdunno03 / 2 Comments

Love is my pursuit
You are my pursuit
Love roams over my skin
you roam over my skin
and I
carry the rain-washed streets and sidewalks
on my back . . .and search for you

translated by Lena Jayyusi & W.S. Merwinlove

Vine-Grove by Nizar Qabbani (Kabbani)

June 23, 2019 / zdunno03 / Leave a comment

Every man that will kiss you after me
will discover on your lips
a small vine-grove
which I planted.

translated by Lena Jayyusi & W.S. Merwin

from When I Love by Nizar Qabbani (Kabbani)

June 21, 2019 / zdunno03 / 3 Comments

When I love a woman
all the trees
run barefoot toward me . . .

translated by Lena Jayyusi & Christopher Middleton

from Andalusian Diary by Nizar Qabbini (Kabbani)

June 20, 2019 / zdunno03 / 2 Comments

Miranda Alafidra’s dense hair
breathing like an African forest
is a long love story
I have known many such tales in my time
and how they have nibbled my life away!

translated by Lena Jayyusi & Christopher Middleton

Testimony of Guarantee by Nizar Qabbani (Kabbani)

June 20, 2019 / zdunno03 / Leave a comment

You want a testimony of love from me
Signed in big letters?
I declare that you are
The last among women.
But why the testimony? Tell me,
Can the sea guarantee forever
The boundaries of an island?

translated by Lena Jayyusi & Jack Collom

A Man’s Nature by Nizar Qabbani (Kabbani)

June 19, 2019 / zdunno03 / 4 Comments

A man’s needs one minute
to love a woman
and centuries to forget her.

translated by Lena Jayyusi & Christopher Middleton

Education by Nizar Qabbani (Kabbani)

June 19, 2019 / zdunno03 / Leave a comment

Your love taught me how love
changes the map of ages
taught me that when I love
the earth stops turning.

translated by Lena Jayyusi & Christopher Middleton

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I'm a writer and an educator living in Istanbul, Turkey. I currently have two books published by Austin Macauley Publishers (Istanbul Days, Istanbul Nights & Rizzo's World) in the UK and three others (Night & Day, Wooing Wu, and Harry) available through amazon.com as kindles. Another mystery novel was translated into Turkish available through a publisher in Turkey. That's me as the writer. Currently I work independently as a coach/consultant in Turkey. Before this, I was a coach/consultant for managers at Petkim Petrol/Chemical Company in Izmir. I've also been the director of English language programs at five different colleges/universities: two in my native NY and three in Istanbul. That's me as the educator. I have two masters: an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green University (why oh why oh why-o, did I ever go to Ohio?) and an MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Columbia University. And besides all that, I once managed a shoe store, a warehouse, owned a literary bookstore called Intellectuals & Liars in Santa Monica, CA, worked as a professional boy scout, wrote advertising copy for radio, did summer stock as an actor, clerked in a food co-op, was a busboy for a day at Ziggy's Kosher Restaurant, sold vacuum cleaners at Gimbels, was a green attendant at Cypress Hills Cemetery and so on.

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