asma mohammad alhaj

Asma Mohammad Alhaj

Asma Mohammad Alhaj (Palestin/ Jordan)

She was born in Amman -Jordan.

Palestinian has the nationality of Jordan.

Graduated from the faculty of arts from Birzeyt University in Ramallah-Palestine.

Has a master in Arabic Modern literature from Beirut -Lebanon.

Working as news and program presenter since 2007, started in Beirut-Lebanon and moved to TRT Arabia (Turkish television and radio) in Istanbul -Turkye  in the Arabic section from 2015 until now.

  • Active in literary and media work
  • Chosen as one of the success stories in Aljazeera Training Center in Qatar
  • Chosen as the Best Arabian Anchor in Turkey by the Lebanese-Palestinian Youth Meeting in Beirut.
  • Honoring certificate for the contribution to The World Forum of Turkish and Arab Writers organized by Istanbul University2018
  • Honored by the Cultural Movement in Lebanon.
  • Presenting many literature seminars, lectures, political conferences and poetry festivals in Lebanon & Turkey (Istanbulensis Poetry festival-Uluslararasi Istanbulensis Şiir Festival 2017, Sabanja poetry festival- Uluslararası Sapanca Şiir Akşamları 2017,

Havana international poetry festival- Cuba 2018,

Jose maría heredia international poetry festival Toluca_mexico 2018

International poetry forum for Arabic and Turkish poets, Palestinian Women Forum, Palestine Forum for Media and Communication 2014, Symposium about the impact of the media on the Palestinian issue/Brussels_Belgium 2013).

 

  • Poetry book “Ashadu Wajaan Men Al Maa – اشد وجعا من الماء“ (2009)

(More pain than water)

  • Poetry book “Ikaa Al Kaab Al Aali – إيقاع الكعب العالي” (2011)

(The harmony of high hell)

 

 

PHOTO ALBUM

 

When our beloved one’s desert

And we fail to water our botanical flowers

We woke up to droughty faces

Only

the absence revive our hearts

Reminisced about our well being

 

Behind the dirt

We admire the dusty photo

In which whom we love

Turn their back

To made a comeback

Our bodies

Becomes shallow

 

And Slowdown our footstep

Only the absence

opens our eyes to the unknown

awake  the sleepy world inside us

rings  the bill of regret about us

seeds the eternal tree around us

we shelter into its shadow

from Any restriction left by the soul’s demise

Any war that lives on the virtues

 

We fail

Marching behind death

We stand Corpse

In front of it

Only absence stirs our humanity

Salt our days

When death dressed us in a cloak of peace

this life is restless

it Shortens our beloved into a tale

Turn over time to an album of photos

 

(From high heel rhythm collections)

Asma Mohammad Alhaj

 

 

CANARY

 

My love

You have a night in the open space

A lantern in the corner when I m bored

A prayer to the Agony of your absence

 

My love

How can I rotate these thirsty voices

from my poem then write?

And my running spectrum to dark

Does one night substitute your absence?

And the pregnant female inside me

Expecting yesterday

How can I bare the absurd pain?

 

My love

Fast on your branches

My life falls asleep

Then the canary sob

Contentment or torment

I don’t know …

Warble a song you did not perceive

Then wing its way

 

(From collections: more severe pain than water.)

 

Asma Mohammad Alhaj