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August 2020

"Plasticity" by Sandra Ghosn ​وأدرك شهرزادَ الصباحُ وانشقّ الفجر فسكتت عن الكلام المباح…. صونًا لجسدها المستباح. وقالت أختها دينارزاد يا أختاه ما أغرب حديثك وما أطيبه. فقالت شهرزاد وما هذا ممّا سأحدّثكم به الليلة المقبلة إنْ عشتُ وأبقاني الملك…. ولكن على عكس اللّيالي الأخرى، في هذه الليلة الملك شهريار قد اشتغل سرّه إلى درجة أنه لم يعد يستطع كتمان فضوله فثار ثورة عارمة عندما سمع شهرزاد تختم حديثها، غير أنّها أبتْ إكمال الحديث بعد طلوع الضوء قائلة إنّ الليل وحده قادر على حفظ أسرار حكاياتها وإنّ النهار سيُفسدها لكن كاد الملك يطير عقله وتوعّد شهرزاد بضرب عنقها إن لم تُكمل.  وإذا بدينارزاد تتدخّل مناشدة

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لوسيل كليفتون ترجمت من الانكليزية بقلم هبا أحمد if there is a rivermore beautiful than thisbright as the bloodred edge of the moon          if there is a rivermore faithful than thisreturning each monthto the same delta          if there is a riverbraver than thiscoming and coming in a surgeof passion, of pain          if there is a rivermore ancient than thisdaughter of evemother of cain and of abel          if there is in the universe such a river          ifthere is some where watermore powerful than this wildWaterpray that it flows alsothrough animalsbeautiful and faithful and ancientand female and brave إذا كان ثمة نهرأكثر جمالًامن هذا

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ترجمة, شعر
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Photography by Nour Annan The first time I broke a bone, I was twenty-five years old. I fractured my right hand while exercising. The base of my pinky was cracked open and required immobilization. Otherwise, as my doctor cold-heartedly put it, "I'd have to perform a surgery where I break it further to have it heal in the right position.” This injury reshaped my relationship with the hands of those around me and changed the way I perceive my own. It made me realize the strength my hands had built up over the years, despite all odds. I remember sitting anxiously in

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Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal was founded in the English Department of the American University of Beirut in 2012 with the intention of creating a space for both emerging and established writers who have a connection to Lebanon.
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