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January Translation Challenge: Kushajim

January Translation Challenge: Kushajim

Hosted by Salma Harland I was thrilled to find out that ArabLit’s #ArabicTranslationChallenge is back and thought that nothing could be more befitting than Kushājim’s epigrammatic riddles. Kushājim (c. 902 – 970 CE) is a celebrated 10th-century Arab court poet, master chef, and polymath who was part of Sayf al-Dawla’s circle. Though a poet of considerable range, Kushājim is best known as a…

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Lit & Found: Four Gastronomic Poems by Kushajim

Lit & Found: Four Gastronomic Poems by Kushajim

Salma Harland has translated “Four Gastronomic Poems” by Kushajim for Exchanges magazine at the University of Iowa, which has run them bilingually. The poems — on asparagus, mushabbak, khushkanaj, and pomegranates — are presented with a translator’s note and teaching guide, as well as art by ArabLit Quarterly art director Hassân Al Mohtasib. In her translator’s note, Harland writes: I have…

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