Where Not to Be Born – Safaa Fathy Rhea karam Amélie Gaulier (She/Her) is a

Amélie Gaulier (She/Her)  is a white bodied woman with mediterranean roots

Originally published in Sweden

Discovering how her mother likes her yoghurt sparks a captivating exploration of what led her mother from Germany to Lebanon

70 colour platesSection-sewn open spine softcover

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Where Not to Be Born – Safaa Fathy Rhea karam Amélie Gaulier (She/Her) is aWhere Not to Be Born encompasses a selection of works representing Safaa Fathys wide ranging, richly allusive, and cinematically inflected poetic practice. Bringing together poems from four Arabic language books that were published between 1989 and 2010, Rawad Wehbes luminous translation invites English language readers into Fathys densely populated image scape that is both an affectionate paean and pronounced divergence vis vis traditional Arabic