The poet, critic and artist Mohamed Okasha faces our creative life with more than one mask. We can describe these masks accurately when we read his poetic and prose texts, follow his critical analyses, or stand before his sculptural works.
How to Raise a Cloud, Book Cover
If we praise words by describing them as painted with
We follow the swing that the narrator took in “Bitter Orange” by the Lebanese writer Basma ElKhatib (Dar Al-Adab) as a deceptive, rotating place from which she appears to tell, between a backward jolt that overlooks a past in which the most painful thing is, and the most beautiful thing in it is almost absent, and a forward jolt
The Cheongju University was founded by Kim Won-keun (1886~1965) and his brother, Kim Young-keun (1888~1976). The forerunner was Cheongseok Academic Foundation, established in 1924. The two founding brothers had gone through various hardships and, through blood, sweat and tears, had made a great fortune. They poured their fortune into
Four years ago I visited Nepal. It is a small country, its right hand holds the palm of China, and its left hand rests on the shoulder of India, so that between them appears a nut in the jaws of a giant crusher… It has Mount Everest; the tallest peak in the world, continuously visited by travelers and adventurers, and Buddha, the boy
After a marathon flight, from Cairo Airport to Incheon Airport, between the joy of flying, and the anxiety of waiting and staring at the screens of the travel gates, I thought after we left in that spring weather that we were heading to the hotel, but my friend, the veteran Korean journalist Lee Sang-ki, the former president of the
