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To be published today, February 6, our first poetry book of the year is the first collection in French by the Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh. It is translated by Chakib Ararou, who also wrote the book’s afterword:
"Do Not Believe Me If I Speak to You of War can also be read as the diary of a woman’s body besieged by wars, and how the brutality of occupation pushes it to revisit again and again each of the questions that trouble it to its deepest recesses. The question of love is closely examined, in a kind of clinical assessment in which male cowardice is sharply sketched. The question of procreation also haunts the collection, leaving unresolved the problem of whether or not to give life in a world of violence, and within a people that does not want to be annihilated."

Poet, performer, journalist, and Palestinian curator, Asmaa Azaizeh was born in 1985 in Dabburieh, in Lower Galilee. She directed the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah, and her poetic work has been translated into several languages.

Chakib Ararou holds a PhD in modern Arabic literature, is a research associate at Iremam, teaches at Inalco, and is a literary translator.
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