Nour Al Ghraowi is a Middle Eastern Writer, born and raised in Damascus, Syria. She has received a BA in English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin, and is pursuing an MFA in poetry at Texas State University. Her poetry and essay has appeared in Dame Magazine, So To Speak, Mizna Literary Journal, and Echo Literary Magazine. Nour writes in hope of changing the Western view of the Middle East and the Arabic language that is often viewed as inimical.
Content by Nour Al Ghraowi
Reviews,
Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem Speaks of Rivers and Bodies
Mojave American poet Natalie Diaz breaks all the rules with the breaks of her lines in Postcolonial Love Poem. In this collection, Diaz speaks through the native tongues of bodies groups that have been erased at the hand of the colonizer. She speaks of land, of rivers, of bodies, of love, and of the pain of a nation fighting to exist again.
Field Notes,
How I Entered a Pandemic while Healing from a War’s Wounds
What’s the difference, if there are any, between a war and a pandemic? Both are fatal, both allow fear to fester in our bodies, and both prevent us from carrying on with our lives until we somehow get used to it. I’ve experienced both, no break in between to heal the wounds of the war, now with constant fear of illness residing in my body.
Interviews,
The Power of Voice in Poetry: A Conversation with Adrian Matejka
When a poem works, you feel it. You don’t feel it in your brain. You feel it in your shoulder blades and in your chest. Sometimes you feel along your arms because there are goosebumps. That’s where the poem settles itself—entirely in the body. It’s going back home. The poem is coming from the body and going back to it.