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Rattle Poetryep. 252 - Maaz Bin BilalMaaz Bin Bilal is a poet, translator, and academic. His first collection of poetry, Ghazalnama: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu, was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. His translations of Fikr Taunvis’s Partition diary, The Sixth River, and Mirza Ghalib’s Persian long poem on Banaras, Chiragh-e-Dair, Temple Lamp, were also critically noted. Reviews of his books may be found in Wasafiri, World Literature Today, The Hindu, Indian Express, and other publications. His poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Irish, and Bengali. Maaz was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Trust fellowship in writing and translation in W...2024-07-082h 03
The Safe House Travel DiaryEpisode 6: HopeEpisode 6 takes place on my last day in Lebanon as Saleh and I zip around Beirut to the Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camp, the Dahieh neighborhood, and the heart of the city, Martyrs' Square. ABOUTWelcome to The Safe House Travel Diary, a travel and music podcast that explores hip hop in misunderstood places. My name is Soha. I go to the safe houses of hip hop artists for intimate conversations and try to get a sense of what life is like in their corner of the world. The idea for The Safe House comes fr...2023-07-2729 min
My BookEP 06: Temple Lamp/ English Translation of Mirza Ghalib’s Chiragh-e-Dair by Maaz Bin BilalChiragh-e-Dair by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1868) is a long poem in Persian on the Indian holy town, Benares. In the 6th episode of Cine Ink podcast ‘My Book’, Maaz Bin Bilal discusses Ghalib’s deep-rooted respect for Hindus and ‘Temple Lamp’, English translation of Chiragh-e-Dair, with Saif Mahmood. Temple Lamp has been published by Penguin Classics. Maaz Bin Bilal is a poet, translator, and academic. His first collection, Ghazalnama: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu (2019), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yu...2023-04-2040 min
New Books in PoetryMaaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022).The poem ‘Chirag-e-Dair’ or Temple Lamp is an eloquent and vibrant Persian masnavi by Mirza Ghalib. While we quote liberally from his Urdu poetry, we know little of his writings in Persian, and while we read of his love for the city of Delhi, we discover in temple Lamp, his rapture over the spiritual and sensual city of Banaras.Chiragh-e-Dair is being translated directly from Persian into English in its entirety for the first time, with...2022-10-2636 min
New Books in South Asian StudiesMaaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022).The poem ‘Chirag-e-Dair’ or Temple Lamp is an eloquent and vibrant Persian masnavi by Mirza Ghalib. While we quote liberally from his Urdu poetry, we know little of his writings in Persian, and while we read of his love for the city of Delhi, we discover in temple Lamp, his rapture over the spiritual and sensual city of Banaras.Chiragh-e-Dair is being translated directly from Persian into English in its entirety for the first time, with...2022-10-2636 min
New Books in LiteratureMaaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022).The poem ‘Chirag-e-Dair’ or Temple Lamp is an eloquent and vibrant Persian masnavi by Mirza Ghalib. While we quote liberally from his Urdu poetry, we know little of his writings in Persian, and while we read of his love for the city of Delhi, we discover in temple Lamp, his rapture over the spiritual and sensual city of Banaras.Chiragh-e-Dair is being translated directly from Persian into English in its entirety for the first time, with...2022-10-2636 min
New Books in Iranian StudiesMaaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022).The poem ‘Chirag-e-Dair’ or Temple Lamp is an eloquent and vibrant Persian masnavi by Mirza Ghalib. While we quote liberally from his Urdu poetry, we know little of his writings in Persian, and while we read of his love for the city of Delhi, we discover in temple Lamp, his rapture over the spiritual and sensual city of Banaras.Chiragh-e-Dair is being translated directly from Persian into English in its entirety for the first time, with...2022-10-2636 min
Strollingdeath awareness / merging spiritual and secular / Islamic economy (with Bilal Ghalib)https://strolling.rosano.ca/0006
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Source Code Berlin archiveSource Code Berlin archive: From Berlin to Baghdad: Bilal Ghalib on Hacker Space Ethos"From Berlin to Baghdad: Bilal Ghalib on Hacker Space Ethos" from archive.org was assembled into the "Source Code Berlin archive" podcast by Fourble.
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Citizen ReporterBilal Ghalib: Building Deeper Relationships
Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Bilal Ghalib
(Paris, France)
Beyond the loss, the distance, and the isolation brought on by the global pandemic, Bilal Ghalib has found creative and effective ways to keep learning; about himself, his loved ones, and humans in general. He also has never stopped experimenting with ways of connecting with people or tapping into his own talents and fears.Today on the podcast, we spend the hour speaking with Bilal about his reflections over the past year, what he has figured out and what he struggles with. We tackle history and the parts...2021-04-0400 min
Global News What Happened To...?Drowned boy on the beach - Alan Kurdi & the Syrian refugee crisis Part 2On this episode of the Global News What Happened To...?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the story of Alan Kurdi and the Syrian refugee crisis (Part 2)In 2012, Ruba Bilal was living in Damascus, Syria with her husband and two sons; she had reached a level of stability in her life, but the country where she had lived her whole life was in the middle of a dangerous civil war.Bilal said she was an activist in her community and worked on providing aid to people who were in areas that were under siege, but her family...2021-03-1153 min
UrdunamaFrom Agra to Balli Maran, Tracing the Journey of Mirza GhalibMirza Ghalib - who is to Urdu literature what Shakespeare is to English - whose poetry has continued to find admirers even a century and a half later when he is no more.
Born in 1797 in Agra, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib moved to Delhi wherein the court of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, his talents found new heights. These heights of his literary brilliance often prod you on a deeper level and make you wonder.
‘Did Ghalib ever write about politics?’, ‘how can his poems be interpreted as literature about God?’ Most importantly, ‘did he - the baadah...2019-12-2617 min