David Naimon

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4,074 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 24 Aug

David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Hajjar Baban : Low Flying Planes · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

So instead of pulling you down, it's lifting you up. podcast-host

Well, can you pick two or three for us to hear? podcast-host

So this second question from Marwa is about a form she invented that's been spreading in use. podcast-host

Writers including Safia Ahilo and Lena Halaf Tafaha and yourself use this form called the Arabic. podcast-host

It's also been taught in writing groups at the Arab American Museum and more. podcast-host

So here's Marwa's second question. podcast-host

This is Marwa's description of her Arabic form. podcast-host

Quote: The Arabic is a form that includes an Arabic letter with an Arabic footnote and an Arabic numeral, preferably written right to left as the Arabic language is, and vehemently rejects you if you try to read it left to right. podcast-host

To vehemently reject, in this case, means podcast-host

to transfer the feeling of every time the poet has heard an English as only language speaker patronizingly utter in some variation the following phrase. podcast-host

Oh, so and so is English as a second language, as if it was a kind of weakness. podcast-host

Nah. podcast-host

Marwa alludes to how occurred writing in the Arabic form podcast-host

form adds a certain charged valence. podcast-host

And thus it seems fitting that one of my favorite poems of yours in the whole collection, which is in the Arabic form, opens with part of this Becca's poem we heard at the beginning about the fraught relationship between the two languages. podcast-host

Also in the endnotes for this poem we learn that it borrows from a quote by the Kurdish writer and intellectual Musa Anter that goes If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land. podcast-host

This poem looks like it is titled Mist Miserable to Stone, but should be read the other direction as Stone to Miserable Mist with podcast-host

So maybe this is a good way to go out. podcast-host

I was hoping we could go out with a reading of Stone to Miserable Mist, and then also the poem Lonely Palindrome with Allah. podcast-host

Thank you so much, Hajar. podcast-host

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