When the poet Kaveh Akbar was a young child, his father taught him to recite Muslim prayers in Arabic, a language Akbar didn’t understand, and which his family spoke only during worship. Mimicking ...
Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. WARNING: This audio contains discussion of suicide. Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American writer who ...
It’s one of the most frequently spoken pentasyllabic phrases in the Arabic language. It is recited by millions of Muslims and Arab Christians every day. And, at least in the West, it has become ...
This is FRESH AIR. Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. He's also written a book of poetry called "Portrait Of The Alcoholic" and now ...
WARNING: This audio contains discussion of suicide. Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American writer who has taken the literary scene by storm with his debut novel, Martyr! Martyr! follows a 20-something ...