Conversation with roses on the balcony – Poems from Gaza by Haidar al Ghazali
Italian translation from Arabic by Sana Darghmouni (first appeared in Q Code on April 29, 2025), English translation from Italian ...
Tag: trauma
“My family is gone,” she wrote, her voice silenced by the weight of her words – Hedaya Saleh Shamun
Cover art by Giovanni Berton. At the peak of my frustration and anger, fueled by the relentless onslaught of Israeli ...
EYELESS, BY NOW, IN GAZA: Five poems by Ahlam Bsharat
Translated by Pina Piccolo, from the Italian translation by Sana Darghmouni and Simone Sibilio. I have tried to contact you ...
A tribute to Carla Macoggi – An invitation to reading her novels, by Jessy Simonini
To remember Carla Macoggi, in the tenth anniversary of her passing.Translated by Pina Piccolo, first published in la Macchina Sognante, ...
A flock of cardinals melted in the scarlet sky: Poems by Daryna Gladun
Cover art: Anton Tarasiuk "High voltage" 2021, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in Padua as mother as daughter part 1. ...
Testing the worth of poetic bombshells – Four poems by Abdul Karim Al-Ahmad
Translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham Cover art: Olga Morozova, "Paradise. Song 30" 2022, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in ...
THE PROGENITOR – Zakir Talukder (trans. from Bengali by Masrufa Ayesha Nusrat)
Whenever he stood in front of a school or watched a trail of school-going boys, he was reminded of ...
That’s how war left me alive – Wesam Almadani interviewed by Le Ortique
Cover photo by Per Albrightsen, Ostlandsposten,2018 You can read the original interview appearing on 30 November 2021 in L'Ortique in ...
Of characters coming alive, empathy, trauma and the refugee experience – A conversation with Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri grew up in the shadow of her parents’ traumatic escape to the UK as Greek Cypriot asylum seekers ...
Don’t Tell Me About All Your Ghost Children – Poems For Syria, by Valentina Meloni
Letter from a Syrian child to his mother Mom, you never told me that you can die even ...
Trending.
news
WAITING FOR PALMS, Peter Ydeen at Lisi Gallery in Rome, through December 19
In this issue of The Dreaming Machine, an interview with the artist focusing on this exhibit, curated by Camilla Boemio,...
Read moreDetails