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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Aram Saroyan

Aram Saroyan reads "Night in Hamdan" by Saadi Yousef, translated by Khaled Mattawa, followed by his own poem "Autobiography".

Duration: 6:07

Aram Saroyan’s Complete Minimal Poems received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.  Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s into the Digital Age was published in 2010.

Center for Near Eastern Studies

Published: Wednesday, March 14, 2012