Heavenly Life Zayni Barakat

Heavenly Life Zayni BarakatShortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society. Foreword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli. "With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope," writes renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker. Prize winning poet, essayist, dramatist and actor Ramsey Nasr, born in 1974 in Rotterdam into a Palestinian Dutch family, was voted Poet

– Nothing Shameful and A Feminine Ending

Shimon Ballas – Excerpts from the novel Outcast

Peter Clark Dissident Syria by miriam cooke

Ahmed Bouzfour: Two short stories A happening at Bald Mountain and The Indian

account of lives struck by loss and threatened by love

Margaret Obank Yasser Arafat Looked at Me and Smiled by Yussef Bazzi

Michael Mackmin

Nizar Qabbani: Poem –

And it is a reaffirmation of the necessity of Revolution

two haiku versions of Lucretius

The ‘oral’ method of teaching all children

whatever differences in age