Abboud al Jabiri.

Poetry Abboud al Jabiri., Girgis Shoukry, Khalil Gibran, Matthew Shenoda, Nazem Elsayed, Youssef Rakha, zajal

Arabic Poetry Friday: Beirut39er Nazem Elsayed, Coptic Egyptian Poets, Translating Abboud al Jabiri, More

January 7, 2011

Over on The Arabophile, poet/novelist/critic Youssef Rakha makes his way through and around two books by the young Lebanese poet Nazem Elsayed, one of the poetic standouts of the Beirut39 group.

Poetry Abboud al Jabiri., Adonis, American Academy of Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Gaber Asfour, Ghazi Gheblawi, Ibrahim al-Koni, Prince of Poets

Was the Arab Novel Prize Given to Al-Koni for Bad Reasons? (And Then, We’ll Forget All That And Talk Poetry)

December 22, 2010

Let’s grit our teeth and get this over with: Did (the extremely talented and worthy) Ibrahim al-Koni win Egypt’s “Arab Novel Prize” because judging chair Gaber Asfour wanted to return a chit to Moammar Ghaddafi? After all, Libya awarded Asfour the Ghaddafi Prize for International Literature earlier this year.