Ellie, a 12-year-old immigrant girl from Israel, is lonely and homesick. Life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. Trust slowly builds as the two teach each other about life in America. As Ellie and Thuy become inseparable, they eventually hurt and betray each other. Ellie must give up her most prized possession in order to save their friendship. Based on the filmmaker's own experience, Foreign Letters is a story about prejudice,...

Adam and Lamia are a Christian Arab couple from Nazareth - members of a vanishing minority in the Holy Land. When Lamia gets pregnant, Adam decides it's time to make it big and provide for his family by entering the biggest local business - religion. He begins to sell... Holy Air.. Nominated for Best International Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival.. "The humor in Holy Air is inseparable from its poignancy, and every element of the film...

This book affords English-speaking readers their first opportunity to read and enjoy the poetry of Zina Weinshall. Zina was born in Russia in 1900 and moved to Israel in 1920. Early on, she wrote her poetry in Russian, her mother tongue; later, after she had mastered the Hebrew language, she wrote her poems in Hebrew, the language of her adopted land. Through this translation of Zina's poetry into English, poems from both groups are now accessible...

A stunning new translation of Mahmoud Darwish's intertwining poetic narrative, presenting a profound portrait of the Palestinian people, the human condition, and Darwish's own hopes and dreamsSince Mahmoud Darwish's death, his poetic writings continue to be read by an audience in awe. This is a collection of autobiographical poetry designed to give an insight into the wider human condition. Darwish explores the meaning of life, identity, and the...

Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career. Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913–2010) was described by the New York Times as "the greatest poet of the Holocaust." Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddish culture, was confined to the Vilna ghetto during the Nazi occupation,...

Provoke is a 21st Century translation of circumstance by a 24-year old. Poetry is not only his tool of self-exploration, but also a rearview mirror. The essence of this book is vulnerability. The author attempt to take emotion, one or several at a time, and explore all respective contextual dimensions. His experience has been documented on several stages across the Middle East (UAE, Oman, Egypt) and he believed it was time to put pen to paper. The...

Here are words and lines by me; Anwer Ghani, a physician and poet from Iraq. I wrote it freely, far from techniques, but rather wrote it fluently and with poetic prose that mixes with imagination and reality, in order to record my observations and document what I saw and felt in the Corona pandemic that afflicted the world in 2020. I relied on documenting what I saw and what I felt with some poetic expression. I hope you like it and see what we went...

While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, women, and children are not merely passive victims of violence, vulnerable recipients of repressive regimes, or bystanders of their country's destruction. In the face of danger and trauma, Iraqis continue to cope, preparing food, sending their children to school, socializing, telling jokes, and...

Paul Celan escribió: "Asequible, próxima y sin perderse entre las pérdidas, solamente una cosa perdura: la lengua". Desde los inicios de su obra poética, en el seno de una familia campesina en su Siria natal, hasta convertirse en uno de los poetas árabes más interesantes y originales del panorama actual, Ahmad Saïd Esber —más conocido por su pseudónimo Adonis- no se ha permitido perder su lengua. A pesar de los exilios y las guerras, continúa...

In the nineteenth century, two villages in Iran, SHORCHEH and TIKKEN, were deeply entrenched in religious fanaticism and rigid traditions. Within this oppressive environment, a forbidden love affair takes root, further fueling an ongoing rivalry centered around a vital water well. As the tensions escalate, Sattar, a young poet and the son of a powerful landlord named Assad Khan from Tikken, finds himself helplessly falling in love with Asyeh, the...