‘A Poem from the World of Cats’ by Muthaffar al-Nawab
“A dark wind bellowed out destruction / as a sweet street kitty awaited nightfall”
“A dark wind bellowed out destruction / as a sweet street kitty awaited nightfall”
In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present.
As the police closed in, the protesters began to retreat, individually and in groups.
“This is a confusing experience, not intended to be comical in any way, shape, or form.”
“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.”
“The no-hair phenomenon certainly has a backstory. “
“One of the trickiest, most mysterious secrets of the Arabic language is the root h-l-m.”
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.