Curator's note:
The text running around the border of this poster is by Salah Abdul Sabour
Click here for the Arabic text
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Laila and the Madman
Oh people of our city
This is what I say:
Explode or die
A greater terror than this will come
It will not save you to seek refuge from it on the tops of the mountain of silence or in the depths of the forests
It will not save you to hide in your rooms
Or under your pillows, or in the drains of the bathrooms
It will not save you to stick to the walls, until each of you becomes a ghostly shadow embracing a shadow
It will not save you to wear children
It will not save you to shorten your heads until you stick to the ground
Or to shrink until one of you enters the eye of a needle
It will not save you to wear monkey masks
It will not save you to merge or blend in until your trembling bodies become a pile of filth
So explode or die
Explode or die
― Salah Abdel Sabour
English translation via Googletranslate:
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Image source:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1dKpxDYugnOv1QQc4n1FA4y-m1zq_B05S