Syrian writer and translator Mohammad Zaal Al-Saloum has released the zero issue of the independent electronic magazine "Rawafed / Affluents," published from the French city of Lyon, aiming to provide a new cultural window that breaks the boundaries of time and space.
The magazine consists of forty pages in two languages, Arabic and French, and presents a visual dialogue linking literary readings with documentation and Syrian family archives that preserve national identity.
Documenting Cultural Activities
Al-Saloum clarified in a statement to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that the magazine's objectives include introducing less prominent creative voices and opening a lively dialogue between Syrian memory and French cultural life, noting that this issue represents a first attempt to test the format and receive reader feedback.
The issue recalls a notable activity regarding the journalistic and critical beginnings of poet Mahmoud Darwish in 1961 and 1962, in collaboration with translator Vincent Robert, and also dedicates a file to the village of Muwassa in the occupied Syrian Golan.
Poetic Voices and Literary Experiences
The file "The Invisible Poets" presents ten creators from diverse global cultures, such as Lal Dide, Sayat Nova, and Qadi Nazr al-Islam, alongside coverage of Canadian writer Anne Carson's works on loss and nostalgia.
The magazine also publishes a poem by Al-Saloum titled "Ghost" in its Arabic text along with its French and English translations, which he wrote in Damascus in May 2014, in a step aimed at consolidating the presence of Syrian memory in multilingual spaces.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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