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Five Poems by May Ziadeh
A Young Woman's Musings, Poetry Fleurs de Réve, Isis Copia, May Ziadeh, Rose DeMaris The following translations are from May’s first book, Fleurs de Réve, a collection of poems she wrote in French during her adolescence and early twenties. She published it in 1911 under the pen name Isis Copia. –Rose DeMaris. Translated by Rose DeMaris Sweet dews in these tender stems flood my eyes.
In Memory of May, by May Ziadé
A Young Woman's Musings, Nonfiction May Ziadé, May Ziadeh, Musings of a Young Woman by May Ziadé This text springs from a masochistic encounter with the sexist archive; though perennially provoked, I keep returning to it. My name is (also) May Ziadé. I (also) write, gather, and, if it weren’t for the year I was born, I would certainly have been confined in “The First Hospital for the Insane in Bible Land”, later known as Asfuriyeh, where May was sent for fresh air in 1932.
May Goes On: (Re)-Introducing May Ziadeh
A Young Woman's Musings, News, Nonfiction Ibtihal Rida Mahmood, May Ziadeh By Ibtihal Rida Mahmood “May” is doing triple duty this year: it’s a month, a name, and a long-overdue return. On May 1st—yes, May in May—the English translation of Sawanih Fatat (Musings of a Young Woman) by May Ziadeh arrives as the second title in ArabLit’s ERASED, NOT FORGOTTEN series, following Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam (tr. Ranya Abdelrahman).
An Apology to May Ziadeh
A Young Woman's Musings, Nonfiction Ibtihal Rida Mahmood, May Ziadeh January 29, 2026 A table by a window overlooking piles of snow Connecticut, United States of America Dear May, I address you by your literary name, the name you chose for yourself, rather than as “Marie,” the name given to you at birth without your consent. I write to ask for forgiveness.
Erased, Not Forgotten: Seven Arab Women Writers
Lit Lists Arwa Salih, Enayat al-Zayyat, Layla Baalbaki, Malika Moustadraf, May Ziadeh, Samira Azzam, Zaynab Fawwaz To accompany Sally El Haq’s moving essay on rediscovering Alifa Rifaat, we have assembled a list of seven Arab women authors whose writings, and sometimes person, were erased, censored, or marginalized from what might have been — in a different world — their rightful places in literary memory.
Goodbye, Lebanon
translated from the French by Rose DeMaris Goodbye, Lebanese mountains. I’m going far from your pink rose garlands, your bright red satin strawberries. Egypt called in a serious voice, and already my rocking boat bears new fruit— But sea, whisper your lullabies please, because I hurt so much. Soft waves of home, sob for me. Don’t go away so quickly, my love. Leaving you, my chest is all wound, wholly tender. Lebanon, you made me.
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