a broken leaf (independence day)

ISRAEL- Demo against administrative detention and in support of Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed. By @gharabli_ahmed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 August 2016 

 
WEST BANK - Palestinian stone throwers run during clashes as the Israeli army in Bani Naim. By @hazemjbader #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 August 2016

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian farmer harvests grapes from his family field. By @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 August 2016

 
INDIA - A motorist drives past an installation displaying a map of India ahead IDay in Chennai. By @ArunsankarKrish: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 August 2016

INDIA - A security force personnel stands guard in front of the Red Fort in New Delhi ahead of IDay. By @sajjadkmr: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 August 2016

Marcel Khalife: They stoppedme at the border
 
They stopped me at the border, asking for my I.D.
I told them, "It's in Jaffa, my grandmother's hiding it"

And with these words, the group split in two
One half carried whips, the other asked, “Where is it?”
"In Palestine," I cried, and they split me in two
One half at the border, one half in my grandmother’s breast
 
They stopped me at the border, asking for my I.D.
I told them, "It's in Jaffa, my grandmother's hiding it"

Oh grandmother, hiding who knows where,

Hide my ID, hide it in some wall
They want to burn it, wipe it from the world
Oh clouds of my country, don’t rain on them
 
They stopped me at the border, asking for my I.D.
I told them, "It's in Jaffa, my grandmother is hiding it"

Marcel Khalife (b. 1950, Lebanon), They stopped me at the border, 1980, translated by Dunya and Boudi at Arabic Poetry, 15 April 2016