{"id":31997,"date":"2024-03-03T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=31997"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:16:02","slug":"two-poems-and-an-introduction-from-maram-al-masri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/two-poems-and-an-introduction-from-maram-al-masri\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems from Maram Al-Masri"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Abduction<\/em> (White Pine Press<\/a>) refers to an autobiographical event in Maram Al-Masri\u2019s life. When, as a young Arab woman living in France, she decides to separate from her husband with whom she has a child, the father kidnaps the baby and returns to Syria. Al-Masri won\u2019t see her son for thirteen years. This is the story of a woman denied the basic right to raise her child. <\/span>These are haunting, spellbinding poems of love, despair, and hope, a delicate, profound and powerful book on intimacy, a mother\u2019s rights, war, exile, and freedom. Maram Al-Masri embodies the voice of all parents, who one day, for whatever the reason, have been forcibly separated from their loved ones. She writes about the status of women, seeking to reconcile her role as a mother with her writing work. The terrible war that has devastated her native country since 2011 has painfully affected her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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