sub.h-o-shām filistīñ meñ ḳhuuñ bahtā hai
sāya-e-marg meñ kab se insāñ rahtā hai
band karo ye bāvardī ġhunda-gardī
baat ye ab to ek zamāna kahtā hai
~ Habib Jalib's (uTTho marne ka haq istimal karo)
Welcome to the 4th episode of the Gaza series on the Zabaan-e-aam podcast. This is the 4th Diary Entry that I have translated into Punjabi from the Arablit Quarterly magazine. This diary entry from Gaza is written by Anees Ghanima.
Anees Ghanima was born in Gaza City in 1992, and currently resides there, working in Arab internet content support. He is a member of the youth assembly “Utopia for Knowledge.” He writes poetry and publishes in local and Arab literary and cultural magazines. His debut poetry collection Funeral of a Juggler won the 2017 Young Writer
Award from the Abdul Mohsen Al-Qattan Foundation.
If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below: Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam Instamojo: https://knotty1.myinstamojo.com/product/buy-me-a-coffee Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zabaan_e_aam Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for exciting stories and poems. Comment and share your feedback with us. Or write to us at zabaaneaam@gmail.com