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• Author and Poet, May Ziadeh’s Birthday

  

  Happy birthday, Mai! 😊💕136 never looked so good! (…and that is earth years.) 😊🎊 b. Feb. 11, 1886 in Nazareth, lived in Egypt and Lebanon, d. Oct. 17, 1941 in Cairo. May Elias Ziadeh was a writer and editor, author of poetry, biographies and fiction, knew nine languages, was a speaker, translator, and tutor, and […]

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  02/11/2022 4:27 pm

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• From Sky to Earth and Earth to Sky, So Little Distance

  “When the world tore my heart with its evil and littleness, my bird sang and made me forget the ugliness of folly and think of the beauty of everything splendid.”—May Ziadeh * June 10, 2021: Afternoon moment of rest, I took out the poems of hers I’d handwritten and read one; I saw then in […]

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  06/10/2021 2:33 pm

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