The Madness of Despair Iman Mersal Four Mansi Songs Translated by

Four Mansi Songs Translated by Dorothea Gruumlnzweig and Derk Wynand

presented alongside their original Spanish versions

while he views his present as humdrum and his identity feels incomplete

arrived at with my assistance

liberty and fraternity

The Madness of Despair Iman Mersal Four Mansi Songs Translated byLiving in London, far from their Arab homelands, Nafie and his young wife Maliha become good friends with Doctor Nadim, a fellow exile. In the twists and turns of the friendship, the mens nostalgia for their old lives and their old ways of living are in constant conflict with Malihas ambition to live and love freely now shes in London. Though ready to throw off the constraints of her arranged marriage at the slightest turn, Maliha is ill prepared for