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Iman Mersal on Saniya Salih
This is a translation of Iman Mersal’s article on Saniya Salih, published by Al Akhbar in August 2015 and available here. . . One of us comes out from the other . I did not find Saniya Saleh in Cairo....
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The Brimming Sea
A translation of the opening poem of Ibn Arabi’s Diwan, which has already appeared on Youssef Rakha’s site, here, with a link there to the Arabic. j j The Brimming Sea h Then the secret was there in my...
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if You please
A very small extract from Nael Eltoukhy’s latest novel-in-process-of-being-published-but-not-published, الخروج من البلاعة (Out of the Gutter). . . At the Sayyida Mosque, Hind suggested they go in. She...
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A poem by Yasser Abdellatif
An unpublished poem by Yasser Abdellatif entitled زيارة أخرى إلى برج السراب n n Another trip to the tower Mirage n She lives on the twelfth floor where there lives too her wise fleet fingers her grey...
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A short poem
A short poem by Youssef Rakha. The Arabic should be here. . . Oratory . this then was what we had: for fear of eloquence we fell often over words and our punishment night and day was to be addressed by...
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I wish I knew
The first poem, ليت شعري هل دروا, from Ibn Arabi’s ترجمان الأشواق . . I wish I knew they knew what heart they held. That my heart knew what pass they tread. You wonder Are they safe? Or perished? . The...
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The Translator’s Soliloquy
A translation of a poem by Ahmed Shafie, حديث المترجم لنفسه . . Nothing asked of you this instant but this sentence. The next instant the next sentence. . You pull a farflung carpet on whose farthest...
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Shipping traffic
Translation of a new poem by Youssef Rakha, which is in Arabic (text and sound file) here. . . The grey ships come from the north, The snow-white ships come from the pole, The ships of the south are...
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Al Hallaj
An excerpt from the opening of Act One, Scene two, of Salah Abdel Sabour’s verse play مأساة الحلاج, [The Tragedy of Al Hallaj]. The house of Hallaj. Hallaj and his friend Shibli are talking. Both are...
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A poem by Mohab Nasr, which can be found here, on the Sultan’s Seal. Other new poems by Mohab Nasr are here. . . Society. Brother, I don’t know what to make of this word, though I cross the distance...
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