Where Not to Be Born – Safaa Fathy Rhea karam The book and exercises are

The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists

Iyad’s research engages ecologies of human and non-human beings to address aesthetic and socio-political urgencies for ecologies

Amélie Gaulier (She/Her)  is a white bodied woman with mediterranean roots

Originally published in Sweden

Where Not to Be Born – Safaa Fathy Rhea karam The book and exercises areWhere Not to Be Born encompasses a selection of works representing Safaa Fathys wide ranging, richly allusive, and cinematically inflected poetic practice. Bringing together poems from four Arabic language books that were published between 1989 and 2010, Rawad Wehbes luminous translation invites English language readers into Fathys densely populated image scape that is both an affectionate paean and pronounced divergence vis vis traditional Arabic