I Will Not Fold These Maps by Mona Kareem, trans. by Sara Elkamel Nick Drake social and economic oppression

social and economic oppression

She works under her expressive title to offer an eloquent dissection of the body - its attributes

and about one of the interpreters

and Ethiopia’s Christian relics are pillaged by Victorian imperialists ('The Gap')

I Will Not Fold These Maps by Mona Kareem, trans. by Sara Elkamel Nick Drake social and economic oppressionMona Kareem is a stateless poet, born in Kuwait, whose work has been internationally acclaimed for its power and immediacy ever since she published her first collection at the age of 14. Her writing comes out of the experience of growing up with Bidoon status (from bidoon jinsiya or without nationality); an Arab minority denied Kuwaiti citizenship rights, who were categorised as illegal residents and stripped of their access to employment, education,