{"id":42,"date":"2005-11-07T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-11-07T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T20:35:29","slug":"nadia-anjoman-by-mahnaz-badihian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/nadia-anjoman-by-mahnaz-badihian\/","title":{"rendered":"nadia Anjoman by Mahnaz Badihian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\">&lt;%image(1\/20051109-anjuman.jpg|203|220|<br \/>\nPhoto of Nadia Anjuman<br \/>\nNadia Anjuman)%&gt;<\/div>\n<p>\nAfghan poet dies after battering  <\/p>\n<p>Nadia Anjoman had a cut to her head: <br \/>\nA well-known Afghan poet and journalist has died from her injuries after being beaten, police say. <br \/>\nOfficers found the body of Nadia Anjuman, 25, at her home in the western city of Herat. <\/p>\n<p>A senior police officer said her husband had confessed to hitting her during a row. <br \/>\n<!--more-->Nadia Anjoman, a student at Herat university, had a first book of poetry printed this year. She was popular in Afghanistan and neighbouring Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the poet received a cut to her head. Blood she vomited may help determine the cause of death, the Pajhwok news agency reported. <\/p>\n<p>It said her family had refused to allow doctors to carry out a post mortem.<\/p>\n<p>  A poem by: Nadia Anjoman<br \/>\nTranslated by: Mahnaz Badihian<\/p>\n<p>No desire to open my mouth<br \/>\nWhat should I sing of&#8230;?<br \/>\nI, who is hated by life,<br \/>\nNo difference to sing or not to sing.<br \/>\nWhy should I talk of sweetness,<br \/>\nWhen I feel bitterness?<br \/>\nOh, the oppressor&#8217;s fist<br \/>\nKnocked my mouth.<br \/>\nI have no companion in life<br \/>\nWho can I be sweet for?<br \/>\nNo difference to speak, to laugh,<br \/>\nTo die, to be.<br \/>\nMe and my strained solitude.<br \/>\nWith sorrow and sadness.<br \/>\nI was borne for nothingness.<br \/>\nMy mouth should be sealed.<br \/>\nOh my heart, you know it is spring<br \/>\nAnd time to celebrate.<br \/>\nWhat should I do with a trapped wing,<br \/>\nWhich does not let me fly?<br \/>\nI have been silent for too long, <br \/>\nBut I never forget the melody, <br \/>\nSince every moment I whisper   <br \/>\nThe songs from my heart, <br \/>\nReminding myself of<br \/>\nThe day I will break the cage.<br \/>\nFly from This solitude<br \/>\nAnd sing like a melancholic.<br \/>\nI am not a weak poplar tree<br \/>\nTo be shaken By any wind.<br \/>\nI am an Afghan woman, <br \/>\nAnd so it only makes sense to moan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;%image(1\/20051109-anjuman.jpg|203|220| Photo of Nadia Anjuman Nadia Anjuman)%&gt; Afghan poet dies after battering Nadia Anjoman had a cut to her head: A well-known Afghan poet and journalist has died from her injuries after being beaten, police say. Officers found the body of Nadia Anjuman, 25, at her home in the western city of Herat. A senior <a href='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/nadia-anjoman-by-mahnaz-badihian\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}