Translation Tuesday: “Salinfah—Where Are the Ghajer?” by Sulaiman Alfulaih (opens in new tab)

Where are the Ghajer? That question forms the central mystery of today’s Translation Tuesday showcase, written by Bedouin poet Sulaiman Alfulaih and translated from the Arabic by Huda Albusaba’. The poem opens out on a landscape alive with sensual memory, taking us from cloud-topped mountains and flower-bedecked hills to a rolling sea. Yet this beauty trembles under a repeated, urgent plea. The […]