Last week, I left my car in Alexandria and returned to Cairo with my husband. Early in the morning, my husband dropped me off at my workplace near Cairo University. I had to figure out how to return to the Fifth Settlement in New Cairo, so I planned to use Uber.
After work, an audacious and different idea occurred to me. I decided to
My adept psychiatric father, may he rest in peace, taught me how to give injections since I was a child, not realizing then that I would benefit the most from it, both physically and mentally.
He used to tell me that the human brain can only perceive one action at a time, so if you press on the injection site and withdraw your hand at the
For expatriation from the homeland, there are endless hopes and aspirations that do not stop at its geographical borders, and these hopes do not recognize the long distances that the expatriate travels away from his homeland, imagining deep within himself that what he reaps in material and perhaps social gains can make him forget his pains or
Whoever has the chance to visit libraries and places of books and magazines sellers in squares and main streets now will see a dazzling novel invasion, and perhaps will not find a single poetry collection or a single short story collection amidst this abundance of novel publications.
During a field trip, I asked one of the book sellers at
The World Poetry Movement is a coordination of international poetry festivals, poetry projects and poets from more than 170 countries that, through the globalization and realization of poetic actions, seeks to contribute to the construction of a new humanism for the twenty-first century, permanently promoting intercultural dialogue through
