Censorship
Previously unpublished poems from Adrian Mitchell plus interviews and contributions from Aoife Mannix, Jackie Hagan, Attila the Stockbroker, Orhan Pamuk's translator Maureen Freely, Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, and artist Ally Fell.
£3.50
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Acclaimed Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef spoke to Jonathan Maunder the about his life and work, and about the current state of politics and poetry in the Middle East.
Saadi Youssef is one of Iraq's best known poets. His work is renowned throughout the Middle East and beyond. He has translated numerous writers into Arabic, including George Orwell, Federico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman. Saadi fled Iraq in 1979 after Saddam Hussein tightened his hold on power. He now lives just outside London.
With the recent Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in mind, I asked Saadi about the time he spent living in Beirut during Israel's 1982 invasion of the country. >> more
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