"This Earthly Planet" poem in Arabic by Fadwa Tuqan & English translation by Eman Abukhadra - from ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (c)trace press
Fadwa Tuqan was born on March 1, 2017 & died in 2003 as her hometown Nablus was under seige. Her poem "This Earthly Planet" was translated for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar by Eman Abukhadra.
Please read today in honour of all who continue to resist.
#WomensHistoryMonth #PalestinianPoetry
"When contexts like our own become unfathomable to their contemporary subjects, seeking past texts can help reframe them, to offer solace through such untranslatable times, or perhaps usher in a word or two to help us understand, interpret."
- Yasmine Haj
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"...we wanted to create a space where translation isn’t just a bridge but a form of companionship, between poets, readers, and the worlds they inhabit, between languages that hold memory."
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As this daunting year comes to an end, it gives us hope to see #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar finding community in @clmporg.bsky.social's lovely Poetry of 2025 list.
Delighted & honoured to see our collective, translator-driven anthology #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar featured in @worldlittoday.bsky.social's 75 best translations list.
Read, Resist, Rise Up: Read Palestine Week Nov 29-Dec 5
Make Reading & Learning about Palestine an act of solidarity. Nov 29-Dec 5. 2025
#ReadPalestineWeek begins today! We’ve made #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar ebook free for download
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Please read Palestinian poems out loud, in public, & in community…& visit publishersforpalestine.org for full list of free / fund-raising books for Gaza.
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@anotherstoryto.bsky.social’s wonderful display of Canadian small press books!
We were thrilled to see our new book #TamilTerrains side by side with #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar from our trace: translating [x] series
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2 books from trace press on a red moroccan carpet. River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love and War.
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Box with multiplr copies of bilingual poetry book ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR. Cover has calligraphic text in Arabic + book title in English
🌹Thinking of you, dear readers, as we unpack 2nd print run of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar 🌹
Read the poems alone, in groups & in public.
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A time for closure (yes, #TamilTerrains is almost ready to print!) & boxes of our 2nd print-run for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar just arrived…
& a time for new beginnings—signing contracts & receiving manuscripts for trace’s 🌶️award-winning 2026 & 2027 lists.
‘Clipping’ from Herizon magazine’s Summer 2025 issue with Ghinwa Yassine’s review of ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press)
Beautiful #review of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
“This collection of poems travelling …between English & Arabic, here & there, the future & the past, are like Fadwa Tuqan’s wish ‘to rid this planet of the nightmare of war,’ a wish to save our dreams from being lost in translation.”
(Herizons, 39:2)
♥️Thank you to all our readers & supporters. #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar has sold out. More copies & ebook out soon…
We hope these poems bring solace, & remind us of interconnected spaces & struggles.
Eid Mubarak to our friends & beloveds, to those standing together at al-Aqsa & in the open sea, & to the children of Gaza.
—& if you wish to give a gift of poetry & support the Sameer Project please buy #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar at @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social
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ALTA : May 12-27
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A few more days to bid & support access to communication in Gaza—trace is offering a book bundle with #riverinanocean & #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
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Please join @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social & Miled Faiza reading poems / translations from #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar with Laura al-Tibi & Amr Amer
6 books on a bookstore table: including : (poetry) Arabic, between Love & War, & 2 non-fiction: Recognizing the Stranger & One Day Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This.
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The Grind (Toronto newspaper) with Black experimental poet Aisha Sasha John on cover
New clipping: The Grind April 2025. Type Junction bookseller recommendations - Jess writing on Arabic, Between Love and War.
Picked up a copy of our favourite Toronto alternative newspaper @thegrindto.bsky.social
— celebrating #poetrymonth with Aisha Sasha John on cover & brilliant recommendations from Type Junction booksellers—
Thank you to Jess for lovely write up on #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar.
Eman Abukhadra, reading her translations from ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR at the Arabic-Canadian Book Fair in Mississauga on Sunday. April 20, 2025. With Gitanjali from Another Story Bookshop.
Eman Abukhadra at the Arabic-Canadian Book Fair on Sunday, reading from her translations of Tuqan, Nasrallah & her own poem.
In conversation with Gitanjali from @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar.
Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for sharing our bilingual poetry collection #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar for April’s Arab American heritage month/ & of course, its Poetry month as well.
So come join us Sat, April 19 for our translator-focused online launch.
« War frequently lingers in the background, even when a poet speaks of love; while love is a persistent life force even in the face of loss, loneliness, and displacement. »
- Joseph Schreiber [@roughghosts.bsky.social] on
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Excerpt from Eman Abukhadra’s poem “Captive Dove” in ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press, 2024)
Cover of ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press, 2025)
A day to read Eman Abukhadra’s dual language poem for #AhmedManasra, who’s finally been released from prison. She wrote it upon witnessing his mother’s anguish & abiding love for her child.
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Excerpt from Kamal Nasser’s poem “The Green Light” (tr. Rana Issa) in ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR
& this, from “The Green Light,” written by Gaza-born poet & revolutionary Kamal Nasser in the 70s (tr.Rana Issa) #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
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Green & white poster. Book discussion Event for ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE & WAR. : trace press- Poetry in Community 16/3. 2.30-4.30. It’s OK studios. Toronto
POETRY IN COMMUNITY / #womenshistorymonth
Join us for a community reading & discussion of women’s writing from #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
Register at tracepress.org
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Excerpt from review of Arabic, between Love and War for Asymptote.
insightful review by Alex Tan for Asymptote.
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Please take some time to find solace in poems from this luminous bilingual collection—
(& support global literature & independent, bipoc, women-run publishing)
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Arabic Between Love and War- cover: off white with black & red arabic calligraphy & english title. BW photo of ocean.
p.24 & 25 from Arabic Between Love and War. “Love Poems” by Samar Diab. Translated into English by Nofel.
“I want to love you without war/ but without flowers either”
—Samar Diab, “Love Poems” (trans. Nofel)
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