rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions

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This collection includes 16 audio files and 7 video files, produced as integral parts of the multi-platform (in print, and in virtual and real spaces), multi-disciplinary, and multi-language anthology ‘rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions’, curated and edited by Gita Hashemi. This online archive is accessible from the print book by QR codes. All works are originally produced for the ‘rumi roaming’ anthology.

‘rumi roaming’ juxtaposes new translations of some of Rumi’s poems with creative non-fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, photo essays, and videos that engage with his work through decolonial reflections on language, human connections, place, and spirituality. Artists, poets, scholars, and thinkers from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds take off from Rumi’s poetry to cover a wide range of interconnected and urgent themes, including global displacements and relations to land and water, translingual poetics and translation politics, indigenous language revitalization and diasporic language reclamation, and interrogations of spirituality, healing, and social justice.

Read and recorded by some of the anthology’s contributors, the audio files include readings of poetry by Rumi, in Persian or English translation, and poetry by the contributors in English, Persian, or Arabic. These poems are also included in the print book.

The video files include video performance (1), live poetry and dance video (1), art videos (4) and a video recording of an online working session. They have companion texts in the print book.

In this Collection:

Poetry readings by: Ehab Lotayef, Radha D’Souza, Hajar Hussaini, Elena Basile, Mahdi Tourage, Oyku Tekten, Jayce Salloum, Trish Salah, Zainab Amadahy, charles c. smith, Gita Hashemi

Art videos: Gita Hashemi

Performance videos: Nika Khanjani; charles c. smith, Meryem Alaoui, and Gita Hashemi

Translation working session video: Gita Hashemi and Elena Basile

Anthology Information

‘rumi roaming’ project is produced by SubversivePress. The anthology is a co-publication of SubversivePress and Guernica World Editions. Financial support for the production of the works in this online collection was provided by the Toronto Arts Council, funded by the City of Toronto, and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

‘rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions’ : https://subversivepress.org/rumiroaming

Curated and edited by Gita Hashemi

Translation and poetry editor, and editorial consultant: Elena Basile

GUERNICA AND SUBVERSIVEPRESS
TORONTO—CHICAGO—BUFFALO—LANCASTER (U.K.)
2025

Legal Deposit—First Quarter
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2024942741
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: rumi roaming : contemporary engagements and interventions / curated and edited by: Gita Hashemi
Names: Hashemi, Gita, editor
Series: Guernica world editions (Series) ; 93.
Description: Series statement: Guernica world editions ; 93

Identifiers: Canadiana 20240437489 | ISBN 9781771839709 (softcover)

Subjects:
LCSH: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273—Criticism and interpretation. | LCSH: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273—Translations into English. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | LCGFT: Essays. | LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PK6482 .R86 2025 | DDC 891/.5511—dc23

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Ghazal 1759
(SubversivePress, 2024-09) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 1759 by Rumi, read in Persian by Gita Hashemi, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 1393
(SubversivePress, 2024-09) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 1393 by Rumi, read in Persian by Gita Hashemi, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 37
(SubversivePress, 2024-09) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 37 by Rumi, read in Persian by Gita Hashemi, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 1789
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; D'Souza, Radha; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 1789 by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by Radha D'Souza, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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The Tale of the Slave Girl who Satisfied her Sexual Urges with her Mistress’s Donkey (Mathnawī V:1333–1429)
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Tourage, Mahdi
The story of the slave girl who satisfied her sexual urges with her mistress’s donkey, having trained it like goat and bear to engage in sexual intercourse in the manner of men. She would put a gourd on the donkey’s penis, so that it would not pass beyond a certain measurement. The mistress learned of the intercourse, but not the detail of the gourd. She sent the slave girl far away under a pretext, coupled with the donkey without the gourd and perished shamefully. Read by Mahdi Tourage, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 294
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Salloum, Jayce; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 294 by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by Jayce Salloum, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Masnavi, Book one, section 1, lines 1-14
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Amadahy, Zainab; Hashemi, Gita
Lines 1-14 from Book one, section 1 of the Masnavi by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by Zainab Amadahy, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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"Alan Kurdî"
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Tekten, Öykü
"Alan Kurdî" written and read by Öykü Tekten, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 2131
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Basile, Elena; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 2131 by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by Elena Basile, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 1855
(SubversivePress, 2024-09) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Hussaini, Hajar
Ghazal 1855 by Rumi, read in Persian by Hajar Hussaini, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Masnavi book one, section 1
(SubversivePress, 2024-09) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Hussaini, Hajar
Book one, section 1 of the Masnavi by Rumi, read in Persian by Hajar Hussaini, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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after 37
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Salah, Trish
"after 37" written and read by Trish Salah, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 37
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; Salah, Trish; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 37 by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by Trish Salah, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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خَلَقْتُكَ / I Created You
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Lotayef, Ehab
Ehab Lotayef reading his poem "خَلَقْتُكَ" in Arabic, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 1393
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; smith, charles c.; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 1393 by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by charles c. smith, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Ghazal 648
(SubversivePress, 2024-08) Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad; smith, charles c.; Hashemi, Gita
Ghazal 648 by Rumi, translated by Gita Hashemi, read by charles c. smith, produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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Translating Ghazal 1855 by Rumi
(SubversivePress, 2024-01) Hashemi, Gita; Basile, Elena
Online working session of translator and editor Gita Hashemi with translation editor Elena Basile, working on Ghazal 1855 by Rumi as translated by Hashemi for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions"
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between shadow and light
(SubversivePress, 2021) Hashemi, Gita; smith, charles c.; Alaoui, Meryem
charles c. smith’s poem cycle "between shadow and light" was performed and recorded live on October 31, 2021 in collaboration with dancer Meryem Alaoui; researched, produced, directed, and edited by Gita Hashemi. The performance took place on Orchard Park Boulevard, T’karonto, on the path of the buried (Tomlin) creek. Commissioned and produced by SubversivePress for the anthology "rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions."
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oneness of being: open fields
(SubversivePress, 2022) Hashemi, Gita
Part 4 of a tetralogy, this short video is a moving meditation on the beauty of the natural forms. It foregrounds the playful and changing harmony of seasonal light and the mesmerizing colours it creates. The imagery is punctuated with selected verses from Rumi that encourage contemplation and the feeling of interconnectedness. Each part is based on a season. Creating abstraction from nature, each short video captures colours, shapes and movements to convey the dominant feelings of the season. Moving from dawn to dusk, the sequencing is entirely driven by changes in the intensity and colour of light over the day’s course. The selected poems emphasize the interconnection of all beings and all seasons. They articulate the essence of life as the eternal cycles of light and shadow, and suggest that their reflection in our internal landscape animates our experience of the outer world. Produced by SubversivePress for the anthology ‘rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions."
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oneness of being: dust in the sunlight
(SubversivePress, 2022) Hashemi, Gita
Part 3 of a tetralogy, this short video is a moving meditation on the beauty of the natural forms. It foregrounds the playful and changing harmony of seasonal light and the mesmerizing colours it creates. The imagery is punctuated with selected verses from Rumi that encourage contemplation and the feeling of interconnectedness. Each part is based on a season. Creating abstraction from nature, each short video captures colours, shapes and movements to convey the dominant feelings of the season. Moving from dawn to dusk, the sequencing is entirely driven by changes in the intensity and colour of light over the day’s course. The selected poems emphasize the interconnection of all beings and all seasons. They articulate the essence of life as the eternal cycles of light and shadow, and suggest that their reflection in our internal landscape animates our experience of the outer world. Produced by SubversivePress for the anthology ‘rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions."

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