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🌿 Presenting with @marionwrenn at MENAWCA amongst the trees of Beirut and talking about language, writing, and ways of using multilingualism as a resource, reaching far back too to the time @jennifergerdes & I brought author Saud Alsanousi to NYUAD for the first Marhaba (student orientation) Arabic-language event with simultaneous translation for non-Arabic speakers! 🌿 ‘When the violin repeats what the piano has just played, it cannot make the same sounds and it can only approximate the same chords. It can, however, make recognizably the same "music," the same air. But it can do so only when it is as faithful to the self-logic of the violin as it is to the self-logic of the piano. Language too is an instrument, and each language has its own logic. I believe that the process of rendering from language to language is better conceived as a "transposition" than as a "translation," for "translation" implies a series of word-for-word equivalents that do not exist across language boundaries any more than piano sounds exist in the violin.’ -John Ciardi from his translation of Dante’s Inferno. #beirut #lebanon #languagelearning #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #highereducation #mynyuad #translinguoglobal #johnciardi #dante #theinferno #saudalsanousi #thebamboostalk #shadows

My review of Jing-Jing Lee’s (@jingjingwrites) breathtaking new novel, How We Disappeared, has been published in Singapore Unbound. Read the review and check out the novel if you are interested in multi-generational trauma, Singapore during WWII, and/or the history of “comfort women” (慰安妇). Link in bio. The novel comes out next month! #jingjinglee #howwedisappeared #singaporeunbound #singapore #bookreview #trauma #recommendedreading #asianliterature #amreading #writersofinstagram #bookshelf #historylovers #literature #intersectionalfeminism #feminism in #beirut #lebanon

☁️🌬I have been researching dead sea zones these days for a short story I’m cosseting and my mind keeps drifting back to this majestic piece by Pamela Colman Smith, the gifted illustrator of Tarot. It’s like she illustrated the inside of my heart! “Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.” #cloudatlas #davidmitchell #amreading #tarot #witchesslutsfeminists #thesea #pamelacolmansmith #blue #illustration #women #abudhabi #uae #invisibleworlds ☁️

☁️Herding cats ☁️ “Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.” - #kellylink #thefaerypurse #shortstories #workingday #meow #catsofinstagram #kittensofinstagram #abudhabi #uae #blue #tealeaves #iching #scrabble #magicforbeginners #literaryquotes

WineOpoly 🍷🍷 Buon compleanno @merimerdi 🌸🌈🍰 #abudhabi #uae #miaamica #gamenight #wine #cheers #koi #partyparty with @pythiaz 🖤 @katiekatherinec @ainemc1 et cetera 🎶🎶🎶 #monopoly #wineopoly

Podcasting 🎧🎧🎧 & enjoying @marionwrenn ‘s stash from AWP with @ramenagirl ! #slushpile #poetry #podcasting Download episodes of Slush Pile from your favorite podcast store. 😎 #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #abudhabi #nyc #philadelphia 🌸 #podcasts #poetrycommunity #awp19 #literature #contemporaryliterature #tealife 🍵🍵

This was an eye-opening book with poignant case studies and absorbing prose. “Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the US. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery, and capitalism.” -Diana Ramey Berry... “When parents gave their daughters enslaved people, those daughters assumed a new identity: they became slave owners. Over the course of their lives, they learned valuable lessons about the importance of property and how to be effective slave owners.” #stephanieejonesrogers #theywereherproperty #amreading #nonfiction #americanah #historyfacts #blacklivesmatter #americanhistory #usa #maga #americangirl #bookshelf #bookstagram #abudhabi #uae #bookcommunity #intersectionalfeminism #feminism #whitefeminism #womenshistory #fuckracism #genderandwomensstudies

Baby Mishu 💙🦁 The Chinese Pekingese was once the beloved dog of the Imperial Court in the Forbidden City! 🏮🧡#china #pekingese #dogsofinstagram #dubai #uae #forbiddencity #beijing #北京 #狗 #大门

Happy Sibling Day to my favorite cowboy! 🍸📚🎼🏌🏻‍♂️🎰✏️From @jpneugebauer ‘s top storyteller, Poe: “I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.” - #edgarallanpoe #siblings #philly #90skids #siblingsday #brotherbear #thetelltaleheart #themurdersintheruemorgue #annabellee #adreamwithinadream #morningstar #cheers

Instagram Bechdel test!🧘🏻‍♀️📚🧠🥗 Just a pause to celebrate a day with some vibrant, passionate, and intelligent women (because why not!?): early morning Pilates with @katiekatherinec, Italian conversation lesson with @giuliettat, lunch writing session with @amnabdalla, play time with @meggan.houlihan ’s kinder, and dinner conversations near the sea with @katysleta, also, brava to @trishypie on her first day at her new job & exciting work trips for @_amorales_ ... #strongwomen #girlpower #friendships #lifelonglearning #womenempowerwomen #abudhabi #uae #healthymindbodysoul #girlfriends #modernwomen #feminists #feminism #bechdeltest ✨✨✨

☀️Caturdays with the boys☀️ “He left the piano and poured some coffee, which he drank at his usual place by the window. Three-thirty and already dark enough to turn on the lights. Molly was ashes. He would work through the night and sleep until lunch...Over a quarter of a century ago she and Vernon had made a household for almost a year...There were always damp towels on the floor then, and cataracts of her underwear tumbling from the drawers she never closed, a big ironing board that was never folded away, and in the one overfilled wardrobe dresses, crushed and shouldering sideways like commuters on the métro. Magazines, makeup, bank statements, bead necklaces, flowers, knickers, ashtrays, invitations, tampons, LPs, airplane tickets, high-heeled shoes— not a single surface was left uncovered...And yet, each morning she arose fresh from the shell of this girly squalor.” #amsterdam #ianmcewan #amreading in #girlysqualor #caturday #atonement #catsofinstagram #favola #bowie #wu #abudhabi #casadolcecasa #小猫 #readingandwriting #cozy ☁️☁️

Train reads & tofu skin soup on the streets of Kyoto ☁️☁️ Yukiko Motoya’s writing style reminds me of Rivka Galchen, off-kilter, surreal. “Maybe what was tempting my husband wasn’t the ex-wife, but a voice that said, There’s no need to live life just keeping up the appearance of being human.” #yukikomotoya #thelonesomebodybuilder #kyoto #japan #豆腐 #日本 #amreading #japaneseliterature #bookworm #travelingwoman #booksandtravel #trains #walking #rivkagalchen #literaryquotes #whiskeytango ☁️

#Hiroshima 🍁 “The world war that reached its brutal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought among the wealthiest and most powerful of nations. Their civilizations had given the world great cities and magnificent art. Their thinkers had advanced ideas of justice and harmony and truth. And yet the war grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes, an old pattern amplified by new capabilities and without new constraints... The world was forever changed here, but today the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is a future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.” #obama #japan #wwII #history #barackobama #americanhistory #worldhistory #wreckage #creation #spring #cherryblossom #normallives #renewal #燒肉

Sunday mornings outside of UAE: Food, flowers, dear, & deer! “Complacencies of the peignoir, and late/Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,/ And the green freedom of a cockatoo/...She dreams a little, and she feels the dark.” #wallacestevens #sundaymorning #poem #oyakodon #udon #japan #sakura #cherryblossom #大门 #fleur #fiori #deer #wildanimals #bambi #五 @pythiaz 🌿🌿 #islandhopping with Wuuuu

Thinking of one of my favorite poets and translators of Japanese poetry today on this faraway island—Jane Hirshfield, who wrote, “Like a lover, your life bends down and kisses your life./ It does this not in forgiveness— between you, there is nothing to forgive—/but with the simple nod of a baker at the moment he sees the bread is finished with transformation...It doesn't matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention.” 🌿Sleeping on Mijiyama Island tonight, which becomes desolate at dusk when the day trippers go back to the mainland and the sky falls over the ancient gate disappearing in high tide. Not to forget, this is the only place in Japan with a temple that worships ogres! Oui, I adore little mountain towns and their hidden stories! ☁️☁️ #poetsofinstagram #janehirshfield #mijiyama #sea #japan #island #travelersnotebook #大门 #blue #bambino #walking #flâneuse #travelingwoman #japan_focus #japanculture #monsters #mountains #americangirl #healthylifestyle #biglove #ogre 🌿

Kinkaku-ji was once a villa in the 14th Century, but after the owner died, it was transformed into a Zen Buddhist temple; in the 1950s, it was a victim of arson and also, the setting of Yukio Mishima’s famous novel. 🇯🇵🌿 #kyoto #kinkaku #buddhism #history #nature #walking #日本 #japan #kyototravel #cherryblossom #temple #travelers #eastasia #yukiomishima #japaneseliterature

🌸〰️#kyoto with @pythiaz 🍥 #sakura #geisha #japan #cherryblossom #travelingwoman #eastasia #日本 #🇯🇵 #japanese #historiccities #dreamy #philosopherspath

🌨🌨🌨 #latvia #riga #amreading “I’m trying to think about what I can do. But instead all that comes to mind are the things I can’t do. How do we judge truth and goodness? Where are justice and righteousness hiding? A society that is violent or corrupt prohibits mutual communication. A society that fears communication is unable to solve any problem. It looks for someone to shift the responsibility to and turns even more violent.“ #kyungsookshin #travelingwoman #bookshelf #koreanliterature #mothersanddaughters #europa #bookquotes #korea #koreanlit #society #fridakahlo #pleaselookaftermom #baltic #balticsea #balticair 🌨🌨🌨

If you know me, you know I love walking and public transportation- trains, metros, underground or above, trolleys, all I need is a book in my bag and movement. This new exhibit, developed from a local dissertation, featured the designs (tile design here) for post-war Berlin’s metro stations, highlighting the formal diversity of the designs on the east and west sides of the Berlin Wall as each half of the city tried to move away from the war years’ demonstrative idiom; there was a resurgence of 1920s architecture on both sides with the GDR favoring pre-war modernist designs while West Berlin paid more attention to the individual traits of the neighborhood where a station would be built. Overall, 82 new stations were completed after the war and are still used today. #berlin #worktrip #germany #publictransport #artanddesign #history #metro #underground #modernism #artdeco #cities #travelingwoman #trains #communitylife

“Revuegirls”, Jeanne Mammen of the Weimar Period 🕸 illustrating the maudlin side of flapper life. #worktrip #berlin #mynyuad #nyuberlin #germany #weimarrepublic #1920s #flapper #roaringtwenties #illustrations #watercolor #women #jeannemammen

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Samantha Neugebauer in Uncategorized February 5, 2017 39 Words

100 days 100 short stories:: story 55

story: One Day A Week

author: Mohammad Al Murr

year: 2008

where: Reem Island after the blackout

note: I can only say ‘Rashidiya’ like the metro man

a line: “Five days a week she passed in a torment of anticipation.”

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