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Ahlam Bsharat

Ahlam Bsharat is a memoirist, essayist, poet, and author of young adult fiction. Two of her young adult novels have been translated into English, Code Name: Butterfly and Trees for the Absentees from Neem Tree Press. She is from Jiftlik. 

Obeidah the Cow

We had a cow, Obeidah the cow. She had big wide eyesbut the whole herd had big wide eyes. She was dappledbut the rest of them were dappled. She had two large uddersthat daily gave two or three buckets of milkbut every other cow in the herd had full uddersmy mom milked ...

How I Kill Soldiers

Fady Joudah, the translator of the following poem, discusses it in an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here. Colonial soldiers,what have they been doingto my poetry all these yearswhen I could have easily killed themin my poemsas they’ve killed my ...