Tablets IV BY DUNYA MIKHAIL 1   I wanted to write an epic about suffering, but when I found a tendril of her hair among the ruins of her mud house, I found my epic there.     ...

  The Stranger in Her Feminine Sign BY DUNYA MIKHAIL Everything has gender in Arabic. History is male. Fiction is female. Dream is male. Wish is female.   Feminine words are followed by a circle with two dots over. They ...

  LITERARY HUB   When War Destroyed My Grandmother’s Grave   IN IRAQ, WAR COMES WITH VARIOUS NAMES VIA NEW DIRECTIONS Share: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)28 Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to ...

    The Exodus Their pieces of clothing looked like white flags in a time of war, or like delayed dreams. By Dunya Mikhail TODAY 10:28 AM Today’s Life and War. (Photograph by Gohar Dashti) Like the turtle, I walk ...

  The Spring by  Dunya Mikhail translated by  Max Weiss Offering tea in the Qadia/Rwanga IDP (internally displaced persons) camp, in the western Dohuk governorate of northern Iraq. As of February 2017, the population of the camp was 14,762 (including ...

  Tablets II BY DUNYA MIKHAIL 1   I close my eyes and I see a dot. It becomes a spot of light. It grows into the size of a person who distances away until it returns to a spot ...

MODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION     DUNYA MIKHAIL Tablets III TRANSLATED BY THE POET 1 Like the turtle, I walk everywhere with my home on my back. 2 The mirror on the wall doesn’t show any of the faces that ...

Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail — Iraqi-American Poet “When you write a poem in your language, you write it one time. And when you think in the other language, and try to write a poem in the other language, I feel ...

LITERATURE, POETRY THE GYPSY/الغجرية BY DUNYA MIKHAIL “She knows the time/ from the way the roses bend,/ from how far or near the sky is…” Poem of the Week (January 11), by Dunya Mikhail. Translated from Arabic by the poet. ...

Dunya Mikhail contributor Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq in 1965 and came to the United States in 1996.  She has six books in Arabic, three in English, and one in Italian.  They include The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A ...