Al-Manashir

About this book

Issa Al-Roumi names his form prose-naz, a sharp hybrid that plays on the Arabic word for both saws and published circulars. The texts move through memory, longing, Gaza, Damascus, wheat silos, and the structures that manufacture public falsehood. At times the book is a harsh mirror; at others it offers a thin but persistent possibility of flight above pain. Political commentary, prose poetry, and Middle Eastern literary reflection meet in a collection that refuses polished silence and insists on exposing the rough edge of lived reality.