Muscat,(ONA) - Nizwa magazine publishes in its 104th issue a special file on the late Lebanese poet Salah Stetie, prepared and translated by Issa Makhlouf and Zahida Darwish Jabbour. In the file, we read testimonies about the late poet written by Venus Khoury Gata, Eve Bonvoy, Jill Kinsat and Michel Dougie. The magazine opens another topic on the Jordanian poet Tayseer Saboul, prepared and introduced by Jaafar Al-Aqili, and in which Mahmoud Al-Rimawi, Muhammad Saber Obaid, Muhammad Mu'tasim, Youssef Razzouqa, Saba Tayseer, Ghaleb Helsa and Maha Al-Atoum participated. In the magazine, a third file deals with the experience of the Japanese writer Natsumi Soseki. The poet Saif Al-Rahbi opens the new issue with a text entitled “Towards the Sky of the Green Mountain.”
In the section of studies, Rashid al-Momani deals with the topic of “Writing and the Temptation of Belonging to the Poetics of the Endless”, while Izz al-Din Burkeh studies “The Experience of Abdullah Zorika: Poetry from the Struggle to the Universal,” and Ali Al-Bazzaz writes about “Chairs ... from asceticism and austerity to leadership and control.” We read a study on “The Art of the Short Story by Laila Al-Othman” by Majd bin Ramadan, and another study by Ahmad Al-Madini.
In the interviews section, we read an interview with the novelist Son'allah Ibrahim conducted by Muhammad Hassan, another interview with the novelist Habib Abd al-Rab Sururi conducted by Nashwan al-Othmani, and a third interiew with Muhammad Saida, conduced by Munther Masri. In the theater section, Abido Pasha writes about "monodrama or economic theater".
In the poetry section, we read a text entitled: “Grandmothers” by Aziz Azgai, and “Silent Mashhad” by Gerges Shukry. We also read poems by the Korean poet Ko Un, translated by Said Salman Al-Khawaja. Ezzedine Al-Maazi writes a text entitled “Only the Balloons Remain”, Bassam Al-Masoudi “The Weight of the Night”, Bahjat Sumaida “The Heart Is Split,” George Dergham “The Lament of My Father and His Cat!”, Maryam Al-Arimi “Sur”, Fathi Abdullah “White Butter”, and Abdul Latif Shahid “Poems by the poet Raul Zurita”, Ikram Abdi, “In the Clear night,” and Anez Kultz, “Every night I sleep in another bed,” translated by Al-Khader Choudar.
As for the texts section, we read a text entitled “The Ascender to the Sky” by Rionoski Akutagawa, translated by Julia Morshed, and another text entitled “The Report” by Jorge Luis Borges translated by Hani Hajjaj. We also read “Three Female Pictures” by Amal Salem, and “The Life of My Father” by Raymond Carver translated by Ahmed Shafi’i, “No one can dispense with the ropes” by Mahmoud Al-Rahbi, and “The River's Companion” by Sylvain Tesson, translated by Lina Badr. We also find seven Quebec Canadian stories from introduced and translated by Idrisiyeh Balfakih.
In the follow-ups section, Bayan Al-Safadi writes “Al-Farahidi ... the first teacher”, and Muhammad Salim Shusha addresses “What I am in” by Ahmad Al-Shahawi, and Abdul Razzaq Al-Rubaie writes a reading in Ghalia Al Said's novel “Haret Al-Awr”, while Ali Hassan Al-Fawwaz writes about “The Tramps in Iraq.”
Ahmed Dahia writes “Shahrazad of the Omani narrative ... Bushra Khalfan,” Talaat Radwan “The hidden side of Ahmed Amin's heritage,” and Mahmoud Farghali on “Elias Farkouh ... Farewell to a cultural institution.” Saida bint Khater Al-Farsi writes about “The Free Association in Maqamat Sitt al-Sham by Suleiman Al-Bouti. We also read a topic entitled “Writing for the Theater” by Harold Pinter, translated by Abd al-Salam Ibrahim, and al-'Aliya writes a reading in the novel “Layali al-Harir by Aisha al-Basri”, and Ibrahim Al-Hajri writes about“ The King Dies Twice ”by Ahmed Al-Weizi.
Accompanied by the issue, a collection of short stories entitled "Reflection" by the writer Sherifa Al-Toubia was published.
(ONA)