Premonitions News Flash

Premonition News Flash by Yass Assaidi is a powerful poetry collection exploring oppression, violence, love, and existential turmoil with vivid imagery and emotional depth. In a lyrical yet raw voice, Assaidi delves into the dynamics of victims and oppressors, personal and political betrayal, and haunting premonitions. Divided into three sections—on killers and the killed, a lover’s anguish, and an orphaned father's sorrow—the poems blur personal grief with collective struggle. Winner of the 2024 Bait Al-Ghasham DarArab International Translation Prize (Authors' Category), the work, translated by Mbarek Sryfi, captures the raw edge of contemporary Arab identity.