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Rain: Spring 2023

العدد 16 من مجلة ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

Simon Leese

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Daniel Behar

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ديما المعلم

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إيناس التركي

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Lily Sadowski

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بدر أحمد

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Hisham Ali Almuqouz

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زينب المهدي

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علي الجمري

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وائل المهدي

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RAIN IS a blessing and a curse, a source of sustenance and danger, beauty and annoyance. In this issue we honor the many faces of the rain -- and of its attraction and repulsion of its rhythms and power for poets, short-story writers, and anonymous supplicators.

Salma Harland illustrates its importance for the latter in “Making It Rain: Rain Deities in Pre-Islamic Arabia," while a wide range of poets address the driving power of the rain: Moroccan-Dutch poet Nisrine Mbarki, Palestinian-French poet Olivia Elias, Saudi poets Ashjan Hendi and Muhammad Al-Turki, and Bahraini poet Wael Almahdi, who writes back to one of the most well-known poems about the rain, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab's unforgettable "Rain Song." They are translated by Michele...

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