Society

A poem by Mohab Nasr, which can be found here, on the Sultan’s Seal. Other new poems by Mohab Nasr are here.

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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 dressed in the rags of a Sufi. Two sheikhs of advanced age.

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Shipping traffic

Translation of a new poem by Youssef Rakha, which is in Arabic (text and sound file) here. 

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The Translator’s Soliloquy

A translation of a poem by Ahmed Shafie, حديث المترجم لنفسه

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I wish I knew

The first poem, ليت شعري هل دروا, from Ibn Arabi’s ترجمان الأشواق

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A short poem

A short poem by Youssef Rakha. The Arabic should be here.

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A poem by Yasser Abdellatif

An unpublished poem by Yasser Abdellatif entitled زيارة أخرى إلى برج السراب

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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).

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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.

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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.

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