Latin Translation Exercise: "If I Must Die" by Dr. Refaat Alareer
A translation of the recently deceased Gazan poet's most famous work.
I don’t have much to say about this that hasn’t already been said in the last month and a half. One Twitter account decided to eulogize Dr. Alareer by posting one translation of this poem, and it turned into a whole movement of people translating it into their native languages. There are over 30 different versions in that thread, so I decided to throw t…
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