Asian Reflections on Trauma and Healing
- As people all around the world are aware, twenty years ago on March 11, 2011, an earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, triggering a tsunami that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region in the northeastern part of
- Asian reflections on trauma and healing: 1965 massacres in Indonesia, excerpt from novel Beauty is a Wound (New Directions, 2015) by Eka Kurniawan, translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker. CAS Advisory Council Member Stanley Harsha
- Professor Levi Thompson offers a translation of the poem Weapons and Children.Weapons and Children (1954) by Badr Shakir al-SayyabThe Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (d. 1964) published this poem in a chapbook in 1954 after originally composing it
- In 1952, the great Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz (d. 1984) published a collection of poetry titled Dast-e Sabaa (The Hand of the Zephyr). This collection included a poem titled “Un Talaba ke Naam” (“For Those 鶹Ժ”) that was dedicated to young