Victims of a Map
A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry (Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim)
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Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today.
Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published – in English or Arabic – and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time.
Abdullah Al-Udhari
Abdullah al-Udhari was born in Taiz, Yemen, in 1941. He studied
classical Arab literature and Sabaean epigraphy at London University, where he
also received a doctorate for his pioneering study, Jahili Poetry before
Imru al-Qais (4000 BCE-500 CE), which established him as an authority on
early Jahili literature. A literary historian, poet and storyteller, he is also
the author of Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry (by
Saqi Books), Voice Without Passport, The Arab Creation Myth and
Modern Poetry of the Arab World.
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