Ibrahim Muhawi and Rick London presenting the work of Mahmoud Darwish
Thursday November 2, 2006
3:30 pm, Ibrahim Muhawi @ The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
7:30 pm, Ibrahim Muhawi & Rick London @ Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), San Francisco, $5
Ibrahim Muhawi was born in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1937, and has taught at universities in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, and the Middle East, since 1980 devoting his studies to Palestinian and Arabic folklore, literature and civilization, and work in translation. His books include Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (UC Press, 1989) and the extraordinary translation of and introduction to Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish (UC Press, 1995), a powerful work written after the 1982 Israeli bombing of Beirut. Muhawi will read from and discuss Darwish’s masterful poetic prose work.
Rick London, born in Detroit in 1948, has lived in San Francisco since 1974. Author of several books of poetry (Picture With Moving Parts the latest, 2002), he co-translated with Omnia Amin a chapbook of recent poetry by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish entitled Now, As You Awaken (new from Sardines Press/Rumor Books).
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