Episode notes
5th episode is broadcasting from New York where Mila meets Ibtisam and discuss the passing of knowledge and language through generations, crossing continents, writing poems and translating them from English to Arabic and vice versa, and you'll enjoy hearing some of them.
If you are interested in hearing the differences between translating poetry and working as a language interpreter for asylum seekers from the (in this case) translator's perspective, tune in!
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Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman is a Black Lesbian American Multidisciplinary intersectional feminist, self-taught artist. Her art practice consists of creative writing, spoken word poetry performance, narrative painting of BIPOC people, and community art projects. Her work draws inspiration from Persian Islamic geometric art, Indian classical art, surrealism, ...