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‘Have You Seen Afifa, Have You Seen Latifa?’ Recovering History Through Folktales
This article was originally published in ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK, in December 2021. The issue (and all the back catalogue up to the latest issue) can be purchased on Gumroad. A year since publication, and on the International Day for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Lit Quarterly, Bahrain, Folk, Poetry, translation
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The Story of Nabih Saleh
I visited Bahrain for the first time in too many years this summer. On one day, we did a tour of historic mosques in the islands, visiting the resting places of Sheikh Maytham Al-Bahrani (Mahooz), Emir Zaid bin Sohan (Malchiyya), … Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, Muhammad Ali Al-Nasiri, Nabih Saleh, translation
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Jan-July 2022 Roundup
It feels like a very long time since any posts have come up here – and indeed, it’s because it has been. It’s been an incredibly busy year. I’ve completed my first year of teacher training (got my QTS, but … Continue reading
Between Two Islands – Round Up
It has been a bumper month for the Between Two Islands project. I’ve been too busy to even do all the marketing expected of sole artists in today’s market… So in case you missed it: The Between Two Islands Shop … Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, between two islands, liverpool arab arts festival, Poetry
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RAQABIYYA, or Neck Tax
RAQABIYYA, or Neck Tax Granny, chewing a date, transmits her soul, then presses it between the baby girl’s lips. “[They] suffer from the tyranny of their masters more keenly than language can express,” observes Captain Robert Taylor of the East India Companyas he passes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, Gulf, history, poem, Poetry, South West Asia and North Africa, SWANA
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Between Two Islands: Poetry Writing Workshops for Bahrainis in Britain
ما بين جزيرتين – ورش عمل حول كتابة الشعر للبحرينيين المقيمين في بريطانيا I am excited to announce a new series of poetry workshops for the Bahraini community in the UK! Click here to register for the events (اضغط هنا … Continue reading
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Tagged arts council england, Bahrain, Britain, Poetry, workshops
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Will You Catch My Good Side?
The following piece was first published on 4 April 2015 on The Bahrain Debate, which I encourage you to check out. In January 2015, a strange story broke about a group of American students found living in Duraz village in Bahrain. … Continue reading
Tamorrod: A New Era in Bahrain?
The streets of Bahrain swelled with protesters, so numerous that the security forces could not contain them with their firearms and tear gas. They poured in from every town and village and marched to the capital, Manama, where they defiantly … Continue reading
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Tagged arab spring, august 14, Bahrain, crackdown, tamarod, tamorod, tamorrod
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The Hakim of Bahrain
From the Archives is a blog series about Bahrain and its history. The stories told are drawn primarily from the records, documents, correspondences kept at the British National Archives and India Office archives. This week, a smaller piece on the 1920s, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1923, Bahrain, colonel knox, major daly, reform, sheikh hamad, sheikh isa, speech
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Old Greybeard of Bahrain
From the Archives is a blog series about Bahrain and its history. The stories told are drawn primarily from the records, documents, correspondences kept at the British National Archives and India Office archives. This week, a smaller piece on the 1920s, … Continue reading
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