Don't Go Pale Into Dusk

“My life now has meaning, I give my heart to love, and this is how I function better...”In our season finale, we join a small community of Afghan women in Beirut who gather for a feast to break the fast. At different points in the tides of conversation, three of the women turn in ...  Show more

“Many of us have a deeply dysfunctional relationship with Lebanon, an often punishing mix of love and despair. Lebanon can really break your heart…”Laetithia Harb shares her aunt’s story of leaving Lebanon and being pulled back against her will. (Dina Saleem performs the English ...  Show more

A special bilingual poem in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin, a linguist who writes primarily in Anishinaabemowin. This poem of eight lines is filled with location — the sweet sea, the curved shoreline — and gathers melancholy into its song. And it is a song — sung ...  Show more

Who brings you to praise? Rumi’s great poem of praise to the “you” is to his great friend Shams, and through that friendship, to God.Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet. He left behind a vast body of lyric poetry, metaphysical writings, lectures, and letters, which hav ...  Show more

<div>شاعرة الأندلس وفاتنتها، أحبّها حاكم وقُتل من أجلها وزير. كانت تملأ غرناطة بالجمال والحيويّة إذا ما نزلت إلى شوارعها، تمنّاها الرّجال كلُّهم، أما النّساء جميعهنّ فتمنّين أن يكنّ مثلها، اهتمّ والدها بتأديبها منذ الصّغر، ونشأت على لقاء الشّعراء ومُحاورة الأمراء والأدباء، فأخذت ...  Show more

Friendships deserve praise songs, and here’s a praise song — an ode — to friends that have crossed continents for each other, and would go further if needed.Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, and Home Is Not a Count ...  Show more