Nadwah: Poetry in Translation
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Sayed Gouda
About Nadwah
Nadwah brings you poetry from around the world, carefully translated to keep the soul of each verse alive every quarter. Quarterly poetry translations bridging cultures and voices. Poems published in Nadwah are translated into both English and Arabic together with the poem in its original language.
Call for Submissions
Nadwah invites submissions in English or Arabic. Please indicate whether you are the author/translator or hold the copyright of your poem/translation. Your poems should be sent to the respective section editors and cc’d to the chief editor.
Publishing Guidelines
Font: 11, Times New Roman.
Titles: Unless the whole poem is written in lower case, all titles should be capitalized.
Length: Poems of 40 lines or less are preferred.
Themes: Priority will be given to poems of universal themes and humanistic values.
Form: Nadwah focuses on rhythmic poems, whether in metrical traditional forms or free verse proper, i.e. accentuated or syllabic poems. Nevertheless, the content is equally important in order to give form a meaningful substance. Prose poems of outstanding value will also be considered for publication.
Language: Inappropriate language or content will not be considered for publication.
Footnotes: No footnotes except for occasional and necessary annotations.
Nadwah reserves the right to correct obvious language errors, but will consult poets and/or translators when in doubt.
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