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Yass Assaidi(Author)
Dar Arab (Publisher)
Published on 15. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
154 pages
978-1-78871-104-3 (ISBN)
Description
Premonition News Flash by Yass Assaidi is a powerful poetry collection exploring oppression, violence, love, and existential turmoil with vivid imagery and emotional depth. In a lyrical yet raw voice, Assaidi delves into the dynamics of victims and oppressors, personal and political betrayal, and haunting premonitions. Divided into three sections-on killers and the killed, a lover's anguish, and an orphaned father's sorrow-the poems blur personal grief with collective struggle. Winner of the 2024 Bait Al-Ghasham DarArab International Translation Prize (Authors' Category), the work, translated by Mbarek Sryfi, captures the raw edge of contemporary Arab identity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
104 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78871-104-3 (9781788711043)
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Yass Assaidi (1982), an Iraqi poet and playwright, published many works of poetry and fiction. He was awarded many prizes, including the Sharjah Award for Arabic Creativity (2007), the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for the Castello di Duino (2009) for his poem "An Ornament in the Memory of the Old Wanderer", ALECSO Award for Arabic Creativity (date), Afrabia Award for Poetry (2016), the Fadwa Touqan Award by the Institute of the State of Palestine (2017), the al-Tayeb Salih Prize for Literary Creativity (2022), Bait Alghasham DarArab International Translation Prize (2024) Mbarek Sryfi, poet, translator, and scholar. His work has been widely published in many journals and magazines, and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, CELAAN Review, Metamorphoses, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African Studies, Translation Review, World Literature Today, and ArabLit. Sryfi has co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film (2009), translated & co-translated, The Monarch of the Square (2014), The Arabs and the Art of Storytelling (2014), The Elusive Fox (2016), The Blueness of the Evening (2018), The Handsome Jew (2022), and Alone by the Nile (2023). Sryfi published a chapbook, The Trace of a Smile (2018), which shared first place, and two collections of poetry, City Poems-A Selection of poems (2020), Chasing a Moving Landscape (2022)