Between Two Worlds: Poetry & Translation
Saadi Yousef reading
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Type
sound
Duration
Unknown
Shelf mark
C1340/17
Recording date
2009-03-04
Recording locations
Saadi Yousef’s home, Harefield, Hertfordshire
Speakers
Yousef, Saadi, 1934- (male)
Description
Saadi Yousef reads a selection of his poems, in English and Arabic. Followed by comments by Saadi Yousef and his friend Abdul-Ilah Tawfik on the poem which then became a song (in the 1970s). Tthe title translated into English would be 'Persistence'. Hamra night.- Cavafy's house.- Climbing plant .- A woman.- A Roman colony.- Nails.- On the Red Sea.- Snow may fall.- Departure '82.- A fever.- Persistence.
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