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"Wait for Her"

S2E15: Mahmoud Darwish's "A Lesson from Kama Sutra"
Rana Kabbani, first wife of Mahmoud Darwish

Marhaba!

This week on Texting, Tomek and I perform an impromptu reading of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s “A Lesson from Kama Sutra” (as translated into English by Fady Joudah for the anthology The Butterfly’s Burden) and then proceed to analyze the poem and discuss, among other things, its intertextual connections to my forthcoming travelogue Pilgrimizing, Tomek’s previously published travelogue Caironavirus, Alan Watts’ Nature, Man, and Woman, Eli Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love, and of course Roger Waters’ song “Wait for Her” (from the 2017 album Is This the Life We Really Want?).

We would also like to say shukran to Houssain for his beautiful reading of the original Arabic version of the poem at the beginning of the podcast and to D from the International Solidarity Movement for describing her experience as an activist in Palestine and for explaining the meaning of sumud at the end.

Next week our text will be the 2006 film, This Is England. As always, stay tuned!

MW

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