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Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
“Everything in this city carries contradictions, as if it is made up of entities broken into fragments. Inside each individual there are two persons, the ectoperson and the endoper-son. The one on the surface is respectable, polite, sincere, and open, while deep inside numerous other personalities lurk: thieves, traitors, bigots, and puritans. People change these inner personas just like they change their clothes, according to the weather, the place, the situation.”
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, القارورة

Bothayna Al-Essa
“Writing is a glue;
It pulls me together,
Saves me just in time,
And leaves me to perish.”
Bothayna Al-Essa, All That I Want to Forget

“Am Ende stand ich verwirrt zwischen Umgangssprache, Hochsprache und den Sorgen der Leute. Ich entdeckte eine tiefe Kluft, einerseits zwischen dem Hocharabischen und den Sorgen der Menschen, andererseits zwischen der Alltagssprache und dem Weitblick der Menschen. Von den Sorgen der Leute wird man wohl nie in der Hochsprache lesen, denn sie ist die Sprache des Zensors, die Sprache der politischen und der Selbstzensur. Was der Schere des Zensors entkommt, stutzen die Scheren des eigenen Bewusstseins. Die Hochsprache ist eine Domäne der Zensur, die sie der Aufrichtigkeit beraubt. Doch auch die Umgangssprache lahmt, sie kennt weder Kommas noch Fragezeichen.”
Sahar Khalifa, The Inheritance

Bothayna Al-Essa
“You can all tolerate ugliness, tolerate child abuse and rape, you can tolerate cursing and swearing, domestic violence, racism, you can tolerate Israel, America, your sectarianism, government corruption, underage marriage, everything! You can tolerate all the garbage in the world but you can't tolerate a poem.”
Bothayna Al-Essa, All That I Want to Forget

Mascha Kaléko
“Mein schönstes Gedicht?
Ich schrieb es nicht.
Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es.
Ich schwieg es.”
Mascha Kaléko

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