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Articles by Amina Saïd
The Watchlist: August 2024
From Yale University Press | Where We Stand by Djamila Ribeiro, translated from the Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan | Nonfiction | 104 pages | ISBN 9780300269642 | US$20.00 What the publisher says: “In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice?
Under a Different Light: Writing by Tunisian Women
December 2017 Image: Houda Ghorbel, “Push with me . . . my voice is coiled.” Photo by Wadi Mhiri Image: Houda Ghorbel, “Push with me . . . my voice is coiled.” Photo by Wadi Mhiri. This month we present post-Arab Spring writing from Tunisian women. Tunisian women have long enjoyed more freedom than those in other parts of the region, and the progress made at the time of the revolution in many ways reflects the high degree of involvement of Tunisian women in all areas of public life.
December 2017 - Words Without Borders
December 2017 Image: Houda Ghorbel, “Push with me . . . my voice is coiled.” Photo by Wadi Mhiri This month we present post-Arab Spring writing from Tunisian women. Tunisian women have long enjoyed more freedom than those in other parts of the region, and the progress made at the time of the revolution in many ways reflects the high degree of involvement of Tunisian women in all areas of public life.
Friday Finds: Words Without Borders Collects Writing by Tunisian Women
This month’s Words Without Borders has a special feature on contemporary writings by Tunisian, edited by author and translator Cécile Oumhani: What do Tunisian women write today? It is now almost seven years since the people of Tunisia put an end to dictatorship. And it is over sixty years since Tunisian women obtained a status women in neighboring countries are still dreaming of.
December 2017 - Words Without Borders
Image: Houda Ghorbal, “Push with me . . . my voice is coiled.” Photo by Wadi Mhiri This month we present post-Arab Spring writing from Tunisian women. Tunisian women have long enjoyed more freedom than those in other parts of the region, and the progress made at the time of the revolution in many ways reflects the high degree of involvement of Tunisian women in all areas of public life. Here writers in both French and Arabic observe and report on their country before and after the Arab Spring.
from “Clairvoyant in the City of the Blind”
V I did not choose to be born but I must accept life accept death I didn’t choose the day the hour the place or the era of my arrival in the world nor the name I bear nor my sex nor the color of my eyes but to predict the future yes I wanted that I hope and despair at the same moment I have strange dreams that drive sleep away I have moments of long silence then words push each other onto my lips it is painful not to be heard and yet my speech is not deceitful it is part of the world’s grief...
from “Clairvoyant in the City of the Blind”
In these three poems, poet Amina Saïd inquires into life, death, and the nature of memory.?
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