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Rolla Barraq

ROLLA BARRAQ was born in Mosul in 1985. In 2018, her poetry collection, What Has Arrived from It, won the competition of the General Union of Writers in Iraq. She has a Ph.D. in Arabic literature and lives in Mosul, where she is leader of the Poetry Club.

We Will Survive
by Rolla Barraq, translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

June 2, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jeffrey Clapp, Muntather Alsawad, Rolla Barraq

We Will Survive Johnson Barraq

Death was passing through the pores of waiting / like fresh messages from the sky

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 2, 2022

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