![]() |
|
Thursday, August 28, 2008 | News.Asmarino.Com |
|||||||||||||||||
| FRESH AIR | Readers' COMMENTS | ||||||||||||||||
|
MAY DAY END OF MAY By Ararat Iyob May 31, 2003 By Ararat Iyob March 05, 2003 By Ararat Iyob January 12, 2003 By Ararat Iyob October 01, 2002 By Ararat Iyob September 17, 2002 By Ararat Iyob September 09, 2002 September in Asmara* By Ararat Iyob September 01, 2002 May 24, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 29, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 27, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 14, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 08, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 07, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 06, 2001 By Ararat Iyob March 05, 2002 By Ararat Iyob March 04, 2002 September 20, 2001 By Ararat Iyob September 01, 2001 By Ararat Iyob April 15, 2000 MÃöD§ By Ararat Iyob Nov. 15, 2000 Trees that talked and birds that moaned (Dedicated to Chinua Achebe) By Ararat Iyob Nov. 15, 2000 I could not say much as they told me There is a “sheep in wolf’s clothing” as you will soon see, it was 1961 AD so don’t talk, don’t ask questions please ... WRITING WITH THORNS Ararat Iyob Oct 29, 2000
Words have always fascinated me. As a child I used to sit and have coffee with elderly women in the community. I felt depressed to think that one could not write all their stories because no matter what could be edited out, the politics of Eritrean reality had to be taken into account. Censorship against writers was strict and thoroughly enforced. Unexpected government house search for Eritrean guerrilla pamphlets was always a possibility. ... TPLFization The price of high moral ground Ararat Iyob |
POEMS
Audio Poems by Ararat recorded by Radio Asmarino.Com in Asmara, Eritrea on Jan, 2000 at AVIS Studios |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|