Privileges / Olga Grjasnowa / translated by Allison García | TRANSIT
Privileges by Olga Grjasnowa TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Allison García Download PDF Back to “Dangerous” or continue on to “Food” by Vina Yun. One of the greatest privileges in life is the ability to choose who you want to be. There is a kind of privilege that lies in the discrepancy […]
Dangerous / by Nadia Shehadeh / translated by Elizabeth Sun | TRANSIT
Dangerous by Nadia Shehadeh TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Elizabeth Sun Download PDF Back to “Home” or continue on to “Privileges” by Olga Grjasnowa. Anyway the wind blows, Doesn’t really matter to me, To me. – Freddie Mercury I grew up in a small town in East Westphalia which—in addition to a […]
Home / by Mithu Sanyal / translated by Didem Uca | TRANSIT
Home by Mithu Sanyal TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Didem Uca Download PDF Back to “Insult” or continue on to “Dangerous” by Nadia Shehadeh. Talking about this has become something of a cliché, because surely by now even the last person on earth should know that the question “But where are you […]
Insult / by Enrico Ippolito / translated by Michael Sandberg | TRANSIT
Insult by Enrico Ippolito TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Michael Sandberg Download PDF Back to “Looks” or continue on to “Home” by Mithu Sanyal. How many times had he heard it now? Twenty? Three thousand? However many times it’s been, he can’t count the number with just two hands. Every visit to […]
Looks / by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah / translated by Jonas Teupert | TRANSIT
Looks by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jonas Teupert Download PDF Back to “Love” or continue on to “Insult” by Enrico Ippolito. A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a throng of tourists. There are plenty of attractions here, but none seems […]
Love / by Sharon Dodua Otoo / translated by Adrienne Merritt | TRANSIT
Love by Sharon Dodua Otoo TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Adrienne Merritt Download PDF Back to “Trust” or continue on to “Looks” by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Love is…about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun. – bell hooks Before I became a mother, I didn’t have […]
Trust / by Deniz Utlu / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Trust by Deniz Utlu TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Work” or continue on to “Love” by Sharon Dodua Otoo. – 1 –The year I took my high school exit exams,[i] U.S. forces brought Murat Kurnaz of Bremen, Germany to Guantánamo, mistakenly believing him to be a […]
Work / by Fatma Aydemir / translated by Be Schierenberg | TRANSIT
Work by Fatma Aydemir TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Be Schierenberg Download PDF Back to “Visible” or continue on to “Trust” by Deniz Utlu. Fake smile, harem pants flowing, she comes bouncing towards me and says she gets it now: why I had gotten the interview. “MIGRANT BONUS!” Her words hit me […]
Visible / by Sasha Marianna Salzman / translated by Lou Silhol-Macher | TRANSIT
Visible by Sasha Marianna Salzmann TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Lou Silhol-Macher Download PDF Back to “Translators’ Introduction” or continue on to “Work” by Fatma Aydemir. I will never know what it means to be invisible. I will never know how it is to be able to kiss carelessly in the park, […]
Foreword to the Collection / Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Foreword to the Collection by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Translations” or continue on to “Translators’ Introduction” by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg. In March of 2018, Germany introduced its so-called Ministry of Heimat, which could be translated as […]