Poetry in Translation: Ahmed Yamani’s ‘Love’
This poem is from Yamani’s collection, Farewell in a Tiny Triangle, published by Dar Almutawassit. A translation originally ran on ArabLit in October 2022. Love By Ahmed Yamani Translated by […]
Omar Ibrahim
New Poetry in Translation: ‘Love’ by Ahmed Yamani
“Love / was the axe that strikes // Love / was the hand holding the axe”
On Poets and Stadiums: Announcing the Fall 2021 FOOTBALL-themed Issue of ArabLit Quarterly
“When Naguib Mahfouz was a boy, he tells us, two paths lay before him. There was the path of the literature he loved to read and write. He could take that path and become a distinguished author. There was also the path of the football he loved to play and the footballers he admired. He could take that, it was said, and become a member of the Egyptian Olympic football team.”
Monday Fiction: An Excerpt from ‘Fellini’s Shoe’
“That’s exactly what happened. We all looked left at the same time.”
From Ahmed Atallah’s ‘Mariam: A True Story’
“Mariam: A True Story” was written mostly in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, detailing the quiet love between a young Egyptian Christian man and an Egyptian Christian woman turned into a taboo by the society around them.
Lock-in Summer of Lit: Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud’s ‘Crocodiles’ Laughter’
He asked her whether she’d seen his crocodile. She exhaled angrily.