London Sawti Zine Launch
Photography by Nim BJ
Photography by Nim BJ
Photography by Lyra Aoko
Photography by The Muse
Illustration by Mosab Zkaria Marwa Elamin is a Sudanese doctor, neuroscientist, and poet who was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. When she was due to start high school, she moved back to her home country of [...]
Part of SAWTI Zine Issue 1 I want to be the sun that raises you in the morning the voice that brings you to prayer the oil for your libation the placenta that feeds you [...]
.. في اوقات اتراجع عن اقوالي وعن انفاسي وعن بعض الخطوات اتقاطع مع ظلي الممتد على جدران بيوت الاشباح و اسفلت الطرقات وفي ظلمات الندم الاسود امحو المعنى من أيامي و اجلد ذاتي آلاف المرات تخبو [...]
ذاكَ يعسوبٌ مُخَضرم وذاك فهدٌ وتِلكَ شِبلَه وذاك جيشٌ في جسدِ طفلٍ وهي عوالِم في شكلِ طِفله. أما ذاك فهو خُنفُس في حجم عُقله وهذا عقرَب وهذِ أفعى وهي حُبلى.. فمن تقتُل؟ في هذا الغابِ من [...]
When the skies turn a color of blue And your grandmother lingers around the rooms When you hear the cups clashing, The kids screaming and laughing, the birds singing, almost dancing It is morning in Wad [...]
After Momtaza Mehri ‘Glory To Be To The Gang Gang Gang’ If everyone’s voice is abdul basit’s and we whisper to ourselves abdul basit. Abdul basit, the people in the nile, bucking against me, abdul [...]
“You should go in the morning” haboaba tells me, “that’s when the prices are best.” Today’s lesson is haggling with shop keepers. She says, “don’t let them fool you”; reminds me “they’ll make up their prices [...]