Lena Jayyusi

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Lena Jayyusi is a professor emeritus of communication studies and writes on media, memory narratives, language, and visuality. Her translations of Arabic poetry and fiction include the medieval epic folktale The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan (Indiana University Press, 1991).

Uprooted
By Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Summer 2021
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Photo © by Yousef Khanfar Terrifying, that ringing of the phone then that voice, insistent, sad “Send your aid eastward all your uncles are now refugees” I sighed deeply, ached for them Then I se…
Khartoum
By Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Summer 2021
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Samia Halaby, Centers of Attraction / Courtesy of the Artist. Innocent when questioned, quick to take flight when afraid, magnet for the heart approaching like a Nazarene lamb You…