Silent Film - Zaki, Abdul Zahra
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A silent film from Baghdad about love, war and poetry... _________________________ A new poetry book by the Iraqi poet Abdul Zahra Zaki has been published by Moment Books & Publications in an exclusively Digital Edition, entitled "Silent Film", and which subtitled "Poems of Blood, Bullets and Car Bombs", translated from the Arabic into English by Dr Adhraa A. Naser. This book is not trying to explain war, but simply to present it the way it is; the destruction it causes and the pain it leaves behind. For all who has changed forever because of war this book speaks the words of the killed and…mehr

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A silent film from Baghdad about love, war and poetry... _________________________ A new poetry book by the Iraqi poet Abdul Zahra Zaki has been published by Moment Books & Publications in an exclusively Digital Edition, entitled "Silent Film", and which subtitled "Poems of Blood, Bullets and Car Bombs", translated from the Arabic into English by Dr Adhraa A. Naser. This book is not trying to explain war, but simply to present it the way it is; the destruction it causes and the pain it leaves behind. For all who has changed forever because of war this book speaks the words of the killed and the killer. Zaki introduced the book with a line from his masterpiece The Hand Discovers describing the waves of bodies that stormed the country after the massive deaths' rates because of the sanctions and later because of the sectarian conflict ignited in 2005, during which scenes like unknown dead bodies on the side roads, missed last phone calls, road assassinations, kidnapping and hostages became familiar for the Iraqis. The book is presented in three sections, under each one of them lies texts that are a collection of expressions that tells the story of a community, an individual and an imaginative solitude that gives space to memory to record the devastating moments of mourning on the graves of the lost beloved ones. It is concluded with these poems that pictures graves, monuments and war museums that personalizes memory as the only left power to fight a recurring catastrophic conflict as the one Iraqis suffered during these years. No imagination or exaggeration, the mere painful truth and incidents that destroyed people's life forever and changed the country's ethnographic, sectarian and social life since then.
Autorenporträt
Dr Adhraa A. Naser (Short Bio) An Iraqi Academic and Translator born in Baghdad in 1980. Holder of PhD in English Literature and comparative literary studies from Plymouth University/UK. Researcher of war literature and English poetry of the Twentieth century. Published researches including a chapter in the book War, Experience and Memory in Global Cultures since 1914, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group New York, and a research in the Impact Journal entitled Western Modernism translated and retranslated in Iraqi poetry: Al Sayyab between Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot, 2016. Abdul Zahra Zaki (Short Bio) An Iraqi poet born in 1955 south of Iraq. Zaki published around several poetry collections including The Hand Discovers and The Book of The Wizard. His major work This Is Bread published in 1995 a pioneer in Iraqi poetry works that presented the suffering of Iraqis under the International Sanctions that lasted until 2003. Silent Film 2011 was the first poetry book that outspoken the terrible events of the civil war after 2003. His last publication was A Road for One that included his poetic vision and the Arabic poetic modernism.