Bahira Abdulatif
Critical readings and reflections on writing, translation and cultural life, with author credits and links to the original texts.
Tarek Al-Noman responds to Dr. Aziz Baazi’s interview with Bahira, reflecting on her writing, translation and research, and on identity and cultural dialogue between the Arab and Spanish worlds.
Read the originalTarek El Noman reflects on writing, memory and belonging in Bahira’s experience, and on the value of recording the stages of her literary and cultural life in greater detail.
Read the originalA literary tribute by Ismail Nouri Al-Rubaie brings together Baghdad, Borges and Bahira’s cultural life. Its imagined scenes belong to the literary construction of the tribute.
Read the originalIsmail Nouri Al-Rubaie discusses Tarek Al-Noman’s critical reading of Bahira’s poetry collection.
Read the originalIsmail Nouri Al-Rubaie reads War Strips Bare Before My Window through the relationship between poetry, war and memory.
Read the originalIsmail Nouri Al-Rubaie examines Bahira’s poem Talisman and its questions about language and completeness.
Read the originalKamil Seruga and Karolina Kumor study migration in theatre, including Bahira’s Una silla en la frontera. Published in Monteagudo 30, pp. 97–112; DOI: 10.6018/monteagudo.624211.
Read the originalPublication news for Women at the Door of the Poem, issued by Al-Badiya in collaboration with Taweel.
Read the originalA critical reading in Tareeq Al-Shaab explores the interplay of metaphysical and sensory experience in Bahira’s poetry. The link opens the newspaper issue containing the article.
Read the originalAristóteles Moreno’s feature on España vista por árabes recalls Bahira’s childhood reading and her path into Spanish literature.
Read the originalWael Al-Qaisi profiles Bahira’s literary and cultural career in his series on creative voices from Iraq.
Read the originalPilar Úcar Ventura profiles Bahira in Todoliteratura, discussing her writing and commitment to women’s rights.
Read the originalHassan Karmash Al-Zaidi reflects on his colleague Bahira Abdulatif and her life between Iraq and Spain.
Read the originalIbtissam Ouadi-Chouchane reviews the collective volume Sillas en la frontera, discussing Bahira’s opening play and its relationship to the anthology’s title.
Read the originalOvejas Muertas presents the collective theatre volume Sillas en la frontera, including a discussion of Bahira’s contribution.
Read the originalLola F. Palenzuela interviews poet Ana Silva about Cuerpo adentro and credits Bahira’s Arabic translation.
Read the originalIbtissam Ouadi-Chouchane’s French-language study examines migrant women in theatre, including Bahira’s dramatic writing.
Read the originalCecilia Álvarez reviews Escribir con eñe in Turia, discussing Bahira’s choice to write in Spanish and her experience of exile.
Read the originalCoverage of Bahira’s poetry collection considers the presence of war in Iraqi lives and its reflection in the poems.
Read the originalA chapter in the Instituto Cervantes 2021 yearbook surveys Spanish teaching and translation in Iraq, providing a wider cultural context for Bahira’s work.
Read the originalHay Festival’s author profile introduces Bahira’s writing, translation and contributions to collective books.
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