From BALCONIES: A Mediterranean Memoir
By Mishka Mojabber Mourani
Mishka Mojabber Mourani was born in Egypt of Greek-Lebanese parents. She has
lived in Australia and in Lebanon.
She is the author of a poetry collection, Lest We Forget: Lebanon 1975-1990. Her short
story, “The Fragrant Garden,” appeared in Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese
Women [Telegram books, London, 2006], and Lebanon Through Writers’ Eyes [Eland,
London, 2009]. Her work also appeared in Habiter Beyrouth? Parcours
d’écriture [Assabil, Beirut, 2010], and La Mediterranée au Carrefour Des
Mots [Assabil-Kitabat, 2011].
She has published Balconies: A Mediterranean Memoir [Dar An-Nahar, Beirut, 2009]
and translated to English Faiseur de réalités [Maker of Realities, 2011] French poems
by Antoine Boulad inspired by Mohamad Rawas’ art. In 2012, her work appeared
in Mused Literary Review An Old Box of Antiques, and Arabic Literature in
English Global Story Behind A Bilingual Book of Poems , and Teta, Did You Know
Aleppo?
Her writing deals with the themes of war, memory, identity, exile and gender issues.
Most recently, she co-authored a poetry collection entitled Alone, Together [Kutub,
Beirut, 2012], a project in which Aida Y. Haddad translated Mourani’s poetry from
English to Arabic, and vice versa.
In 2013, Her short story Fatma's Fate appeared in the Winter edition of The Studio
Voice, her reflection From its shore I saw Jerusalem appeared in Your Middle East,
and the poem One is Not Born a Beiruti in Sukoon Magazine.