Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole
Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole
Reading Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
- Welcome and Introduction
- Opening Remarks and "Warning"
- "Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower"
- "Sabha's Rope"
- Ali on his motivation for writing "Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower" and "Sabha's Rope"
- "Meeting at an Airport"
- Excerpts from "Twigs" and "The Dream" (from "Three Qasidas")
- Ali on his friend Qasim; "Fooling the Killers"
- "Nothing More"
- "Revenge"
Welcome and Introduction-12823
by Frances Sjoberg
Opening Remarks and "Warning"-12824
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
"Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower"-12825
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
"Sabha's Rope"-12826
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
Ali on his motivation for writing "Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower" and "Sabha's Rope" -12827
"Meeting at an Airport"-12828
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
Excerpts from "Twigs" and "The Dream" (from "Three Qasidas")-12829
Read in Arabic and English. "The Dream" differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
Ali on his friend Qasim; "Fooling the Killers"-12830
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
"Nothing More"-12831
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. So What. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
"Revenge"-12832
Read in Arabic and English.
Annotation:
Ali, Taha Muhammad. Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin. "Revenge." TWO LINES #14: World Writing in Translation. Ed. Zack Rogow. 2007.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center, UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Inner Connection
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Taha Muhammad Ali reads primarily from his book So What (2006) in the original Arabic, with Peter Cole reading each poem's translation in English.
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