Literary memoirs can offer lasting sustenance to the struggling writer. Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, my first introductions to the personal narrative form, helped me stave off an early mid-life crisis at thirty, when I felt my own work had lost its…
Rahat Kurd
Rahat Kurd is a writer and poet in Vancouver. Cosmophilia is her first collection of poems (Talonbooks, 2015). Her previous work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Exile Literary Quarterly, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Event, Guernica, and Rungh.
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In a chapter of The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World called “The Genie Leaves the Bottle,” author Richard Poplak goes to Cairo to talk to the charismatic Amro Hosny, a poet who translates Disney, Sesame Street and other American programs for an Arabic-speaking TV…