Lonely Streets

A poem for time of the plague

Created by Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, this beautiful film of lonely streets under lockdown is framed around Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar’s poem to ‘Mother Earth’. It brings together reflections on multiple overlapping crises around inequality, migration, health and environment in the empty streets of Kuala Lumpur where the homeless, the excluded and feral cats now reign.

Translations: Ziad Altaghlibi
Video: Amin Kamrani Poetry and
Voice: Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar