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b'For the second Episode of Dardasha, we met with performance and spoken word artist Farah Chamma. \\n\\ntranslation of the poem "Table Rase" by Farah Chamma\\n\\n(In French) \\nTake everything I know \\nTake everything I know and throw it in the Nile\\nLike the mother of Moses did\\nDon\\u2019t ask me where I am from\\nOr where I was born\\nDon\\u2019t look for what is written on my papers\\nI am no one\\nA nomad, a lost soul, a simple nomadic spirit\\nI am a language without meter, without rhyme\\nI am Arabic, Persian, Latin, German\\nI am language, unconstrained\\n(In Arabic)\\nThere is no homeland for me on the ground,\\nI find it in the sky,\\nA free cloud, pure\\nThere is no homeland for me on the ground,\\nI find it in the sky,\\nA fleecy cloud, pure, \\nStretching like the sea, on hold\\nThe infinite blue\\n(in French)\\nI am snow and desert,\\nI am earth and universe\\nI am the calm of the ocean of the sea\\nI am the words that follow each other in a verse\\n(in Arabic) I am Darwish, (In e=English) I am Poe, (In French) I am Baudelaire\\n(in Arabic)\\nI do not hear tribunal words\\nI do not hear rules and orders\\nI am neither the Constitution, nor am I the peaceful dove\\nI am Ibrahim who shatters ignorant idols\\nI am a flower who flows from the ink of pen\\n\\nIf you want to see Farah perform with SOAS\'s very own Rafeef Ziahdah, Dana Dajani and Jowan Safadi come to Rich Mix on the 15th of February.'