{"id":4166,"date":"2024-08-19T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/obras\/the-arab-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:01:48","slug":"the-arab-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"rayden_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/en\/obras\/the-arab-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arab Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container full\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container row_padding_top row_padding_bottom dark-section small\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-mask secondary-font primary-color\">About Etel Adnan<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-mask\">&#8220;She is undeniably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American writer working today.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Etel Adnan (Beirut, February 24, 1925 &#8211; Paris, November 14, 2021)1\u200b2\u200b was a French-Lebanese visual artist, painter, poet, writer, author and cartoonist who became an American citizen. She wrote in French, English and Arabic.<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2003, the journal of the Society for the Study of Multiethnic American Literature called Adnan &#8220;undeniably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American writer working today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the poet, \u00ab<em>Like any serious writer, her audience cannot be reduced to her Arab peers or to an Arab-American audience. Books have their own life and no one can guarantee their destiny. The only thing we can confirm is the existence of a growing corpus of Arab-American literature and the efforts of people who try to know it and make it known.<\/em>.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container full\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-half-background-container row-half-color half-dark-section undefined first\" data-bgcolor=\"#202020\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-half-background-container row-half-color half-dark-section undefined second\" data-bgcolor=\"transparent\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container row_padding_bottom\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01_-Etel-Adnan-photograph.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01_-Etel-Adnan-photograph.jpg 751w, https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01_-Etel-Adnan-photograph-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XXXIX<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01_Etel_Adnan_-XXXIX_Serpentine-Gallery-Map-Marathon_10-16-2010.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the living rot on the bodies of the dead<br\/>When the combatants&#8217; teeth became knives<br\/>When words lose their meaning and become arsenic<br\/>When the aggressors&#8217; nails became claws<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When old friends hurry to join the carnage<br\/>When the victors&#8217; eyes become live shells<br\/>When clergymen pick up the hammer and crucify<br\/>When officials open the door to the enemy<br\/>When the mountain peoples&#8217; feet weigh like elephants<br\/>When roses gorw only in cementeries<br\/>When they eat the Palestinian&#8217;s liver before he&#8217;s even dead\\<br\/>When the sun itself has no other purpose than being a shroud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the human tide moves on . . . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"352\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/02_Etel-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/02_Etel-2014.jpg 352w, https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/02_Etel-2014-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XL<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/02_Etel_Adnan_-XL_Serpentine-Gallery-Map-Marathon_10-16-2010.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container\" style=\"background-color:transparent;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the sun is a camera which operates only in black and white<br\/>white white white is the color of Terror<br\/>from their eyes nothing remains but egg-white and trees! blackness in the underground blackromm always blanck is experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the sun is counting the earth&#8217;s rotations automobile wheel<br\/>and on the Palestinian&#8217;s head rolls a truck<br\/>a concrete roof collapsed on 500 bodies<br\/>and the sun took the picture for the C.I.A.&#8217;s archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sun camera majestic lens Prince of the gaze<br\/>white white white is the result of the sun&#8217;s clicking<br\/>when teeth become as white as eyes<br\/>the sun executioner focal point of death goes into action<br\/>blood has no color in the torture-chambers<br\/>infrared rays make writings on the calcinated bodies of the Arabs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container\" style=\"background-color:transparent;padding-top:50px;padding-bottom:50px;text-align:left\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Adnan-Cubierta_page-0001-1024x457.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Adnan-Cubierta_page-0001-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Adnan-Cubierta_page-0001-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Adnan-Cubierta_page-0001-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Adnan-Cubierta_page-0001-1536x686.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Adnan-Cubierta_page-0001-2048x915.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Translated by Sebasti\u00e1n G\u00f3mez Matus<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rayden-gutenberg-container\" style=\"background-color:transparent;padding-top:50px;padding-bottom:50px;text-align:left\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<!-- Video Player --><div class=\"video-wrapper \"><div class=\"video-cover\" data-src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cover-video-adnan.png\"><\/div><video class=\"bgvid\" controls preload=\"auto\" ><source src=\"http:\/\/\" \/><source src=\"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Video-Etel-Adnan-v3-final.mp4\" \/><\/video><div class=\"control\"><div class=\"btmControl\"><div class=\"progress-bar\"><div class=\"progress\"><span class=\"bufferBar\"><\/span><span class=\"timeBar\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"video-btns\"><div class=\"sound sound2 btn\" title=\"Mute\/Unmute sound\"><i class=\"fa fa-volume-up\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-volume-off\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/div><div class=\"btnFS btn\" title=\"Switch to full screen\"><i class=\"fa fa-expand\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!--\/Video Player -->\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","portfolio_category":[37],"class_list":["post-4166","rayden_portfolio","type-rayden_portfolio","status-publish","hentry","portfolio_category-etel-adnan-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rayden_portfolio\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rayden_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rayden_portfolio"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--pstuma-bxa.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}