Iman Mersal

Oct 10, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Anna Badkhen |Damion Searls |Iman Mersal |Mariana Enríquez

Apr 4, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Iman Mersal

I came across Love and Silence in 1993, during a hunt for a cheap copy of Collected Miracles, al-Nabhani’s dictionary of holy men. “One pound,” said the bookseller by the Ezbekiya wall, and though I’d never heard of it before, I bought it on the spot. From her name I instantly assumed that the author must be the younger sister of the activist and writer Latifa al-Zayyat.

Mar 8, 2024 | poetrysociety.org | Iman Mersal

CVA ruthless catalog of sorrows:years in front of the screen, diplomas before jobs,and languages—all that torture—now ranged under Languages. Where are all the wasted days? And the nightsof walking with hands stretched outand the visions that crept over the walls? Where are the feelings of guiltand the sudden sadness faced with a little hill of fruitatop a handcart in some forgotten street?

Jan 26, 2024 | nexojornal.com.br | Iman Mersal

Oct 22, 2023 | citylights.com | Iman Mersal

"The first new poems I've liked for years . . .Unpredictable, savage, chaotic.