Nisrine Mbarki

Dec 11, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Dinçer Güçyeter |Nisrine Mbarki |Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki |Igiaba Scego

Dinçer Güçyeter’s autobiographical novel Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Our German Fairy Tale) depicts the experiences of a Turkish guest-worker family near Cologne from the perspective of alternate characters, mostly the young son and his mother. It’s 1984, and my first day at kindergarten. I don’t say a single word to the other children, I just sit in the corner like a sculpture. They speak a different language. Though we live in Germany, I still find it strange that they speak German here.

Dec 23, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Iryna Shuvalova |Nisrine Mbarki |Sinan Antoon |Jean D’Amérique

After our house in Jabalia was destroyed we hid in the UNRWA school. But the bombs followed us there too . . . Translated from Arabic by the author

Jun 5, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Nisrine Mbarki |Alfred Schaffer |Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

Black and White: Three Poems In these three poems, Nisrine Mbarki contemplates her parents’ life as immigrants in the Netherlands and their tumultuous relationship. Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison