Maged Zaher reads Egyptian Poets: April 23, 2015

The Poetry Center presents poet, editor, and translator Maged Zaher reading from The Tahrir of Poems: Seven Contemporary Egyptian Poets (Alice Blue Books, 2014). This brief anthology, edited and translated by Zaher, brings together work by seven Egyptian poets between the ages of 25 and 33, all (but for the work here by Amira Hanafi) originally written in Arabic. These young poets, in Zaher’s words, “had their own aesthetic revolution against the bareness of cultural life under Mubarak.” The reading is followed by Zaher responding to questions from his audience.

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APA
Location
The Poetry Center, SFSU
Date
04/23/2015
Total Run Time
01:09:29
Contributor
Steve Dickison
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MAGED ZAHER (00:39:55)

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Steve Dickison introduces Maged Zaher. Zaher reads his translations and comments on the poets and their poems included in The Tahrir of Poems: "Seven Tips for Giving Up Smoking," "On the Way Home" and "Small Green Dragon" by Ibrahim El-Sayed; "Going" and "Masturbation" by Malaka Badr; "When Clothes are in the Stores" and "When Clothes Were Young" by Tamer Fathi; "Identity Theft" by Amira Hanafi; "[Quite and Humorous]," "The Marching Step" "The [Drowned] Flowers" and "Looking for a Feather" by Hermes; "Dead" by Ahmed Nada; and "Accordion" by Aya Nabih.

Conversation (00:25:08)

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Maged Zaher takes questions from the audience and remarks, among other subjects, on the writing styles and influences of the young Egyptian poets included in his anthology, as well as the act and experience of translating poetry from Arabic to American English.

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