It is indeed such an immense joy to receive a message from the Italian poet and translator Pina Piccolo informing me that her translation of my poem " a Night in Tunisia" has been published in Italian journal Sagarana. It is equally a great honor to be published side by side with such an established and acclaimed poet Shailja Patel.Here is a link to my translated poem http://www.sagarana.net/anteprima.php?quale=454

the inclusion of love relationships in their narratives as a fundamental mechanism to speculate on the colonial encounter and its subsequent foreseeable repercussions reflects a common awareness of the colonial domination and exploitation through such relationships of love." Excerpt from my Paper

"Both with a deep legacy of a colonial history and consciousness of difference, Jean Rhys and Tayed Salih composed their famous novels, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Season of Migration to the North (1966), in totally different socioeconomic circumstances and geographical spheres and within slightly diverging historical realities. Nevertheless, despite these obvious disparities in terms of economic and social conditio

It raises a great deal of doubt how prolifically Western academics write about a part of their history which should in a way be deplored, judging from all its treatments of hostility and persecution to the natives . Perhaps the act of excavating one's shockingly disgracing history is supposed to gratify positively an ahistorical universal denouncement of what took place.

My grandmother, almost 80 years now, keeps telling me stories of how they had to eat only carrot porridge for months. Little has been written in our tradition about this common universal phenomenon of colonial techniques of exterminating people through imaginary starvation.

Steinbeck's famous novel is descriptive of a desperate period in history that is not exclusively related to American history, but to a universal human condition of a beaten working class. In Morocco back in the first decades of the 20th century we have had a year called pejoratively the Year of the Warrant or Voucher.People had to receive their food by submitting what is called in French legal system le Bon.

‎"Do you still remember how we all opted for the blithe suggestion of spending a night in the courtyard of my house under that carob tree?My little cousins woke up just to wonder how unusual it was to find unmarried young people sleeping side by side sharing the same battered blankets. It was strange to behold you, a young Muslim girl, smoking pensively your early morning broken cigarette." Excerpt from my Journal

Figuring out how to start a paper on historical consciousness in Ezra Pounds Poetry.

As a result of the persistently uncaring disregard of the ministry of education of our legitimate needs and rights, we, the primary and secondary school teachers, launch another open strike. Our protests will courageously continue in front of the ministry of education and its regional branches. With a generous spirit we will share again all the expenses. http://www.hespress.com/?browser=view&EgyxpID=29416