Poetry

According to Ahram Online, El-Ramly’s wife — the writer Fatma El Maadoul — stated that he’d died after spending nearly a week in intensive care.

“The horse was angry for no reason.”

“There was also a problem about the terrorist operations and bombings that took place in Baghdad. I know a lot about all this, but I had to watch a lot of videos on the internet, which caused me great sorrow and depression.”

Judging chair Muhsin al-Musawi noted that most could be labeled historical fiction, “but they do not merely retell this history or current reality. Rather, they confront it in all its harshness to inspire in the reader questions about the destiny of the Arabic individual.”

“The Public Source” was conceived as a platform for in-depth, long-form accountability journalism; with the spark of revolution, they precipitated our publishing date and launched the platform with “Dispatches from the October Revolution.”

She wrote up until the very end — about her illness, about Baghdad, and about Tunisian politics — publishing her final post on the popular “A Tunisian Girl” blog Sunday.

“I told my wife, now that we have reached sixty together — / with myself a bit ahead of her,/ we will be living from now on/ the most wonderful decade of our lives . . .”

At a majliss in Saudi Arabia, for example, some Saudis complained that an unwillingness to embrace the art form in the past meant that a “Saudi art form” had effectively been monopolized by the United Arab Emirates.