#ashraf fayadh

[la-ragazza-che-ride]

لم تعد الصور القديمة تمثلنا لم تكبر مثلنا لم تنكمش مثل ا جسادنا او تتلاشى بالتدريج مثل عقولنا لقد ا صبحت فقط .. باهتة مثل ذكرياتنا التي لم تعد واقعا منذ تجاوزها الزمن

كوداك, ASHRAF FAYADH

[luull]

عيناك ستعترفان بأن الأرق قد انتهك الحرمات المحفوظة لليل والليل كذلك لن يلتزم الصمت طويلا. قلبك وثن صبئت كل شرايينك عنه وما عادت لتقدم بين يديه قرابين الأوردة لكي يتقرب من عرش الآلهة الحسناء

أشرف فياض

[alshaytan]

Granddad, I stand naked every day without any judgement, without anyone needing to blow any last trumpet, because I have been sent on in advance. I am Hell's experiment on planet Earth. The Hell that has been prepared for refugees.

Ashraf Fayadh, “The Last Line of Refugee Descendants,” Instructions Within, trans. Jonathan Wright, 2016.

[luull]

وتفتح ما استغلق من حمالات الصدر لكي ترتشف الكرز وما جاوره.. ولكي تنعم برطوبة ما بين الفخذين.. وما بَارَكْت اللذة حوله.

أشرف فياض

[luull]

أثناء تفانيك بتقديس الهم ألم تلحظ أن شرايينك تتخاذل عن ضخ الأرق إلى عينيك؟

أشرف فياض

[markstevena]

An Award for Ashraf Fayadh

'An Award for #AshrafFayadh' by Mark Aldrich @oxfamnovib @pen_int @backlashgroup

Last week, PEN International, in affiliation with Oxfam Novib, named Ashraf Fayadh and Malini Subramaniam co-winners of the annual Oxfam Novib/PEN International Free Expression Award. The two join fifty previous winners, including the late Hrant Dink of Turkey.

Ashraf Fayadh remains in prison in Saudi Arabia and was not able to attend the ceremony. He is a poet, an artist, who has faced an array…

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[markstevena]

Speak Out for Ashraf Fayadh

'Speak Out for #AshrafFayadh' by The Gad About Town #HumanRightsDay @englishpen @arablit @backlashgroup

In February, a court in Abha, Saudi Arabia, announced that it had retracted its November 2015 death sentence for the poet Ashraf Fayadh and exchanged it for a sentence of eight years in prison and 800 lashes with a cane. He must also make a public statement of repentance.

This new sentence switched his conviction from one of apostasy, or renouncing his religion, to one of blasphemy, insulting…

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[iamthetulip]

from “Instructions Within”

Oil is harmless, except for the trace of poverty it leaves behind

the day, when the faces of those who discover another oil well go dark, and your heart—will be filled with new life so that your soul is resurrected as oil for public consumption. This is the promise of oil—a promise that will come to pass—

The end

-Ashraf Fayadh, from Instructions Within (select poems available here)