Jehan Bseiso
Jehan Bseiso is a Palestinian poet, researcher and aid-worker currently based in Cairo. Born in Los Angeles, she grew up in Jordan and studied in Lebanon. Bseiso is currently working on a collection of poems entitled Conversations Continued. It is a compilation of real, misheard, and misremembered conversations — always interrupted, never really complete or closed. There’s a chapter dedicated to the Arab uprisings, titled Conversations Thawra.
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Poem: For Young Arab Lovers*
*This title recalls and subverts the Western gaze
Poem: Requiem for Raqqa
A by Jehan Bseiso in response to Friday's chemical attack on Raqqa
Poem: Houna Baghdad
Babylon is burning, the hanging gardens are black.
Poem: This World Can’t Home.
This World Can’t Home. Part 1 The Interview What did you tell them? I told them that in Douma, underground, the doctors have turned emergency rooms into prayer rooms.…
Poem: Arab Spring, Arab Sink.
Arab Spring, Arab Sink. (1) My friend called me from Sanaa, from Gaza, from Sinai, from Homs.She said: the streets are full of our blood. We don’t have water and we…