Farewell, my heart’s beloved,
In your eyes, I felt longing,
In your embrace, a sob-
Torn, yet still alive.
Valbona R. Hadri, an acclaimed poetess from Kosovo, shares her poetry
Valbona R. Hadri was born in Ferizaj, where she completed her primary and secondary education. She later earned a degree in Albanian Language
Gausur Rahman is celebrated as a poet, essayist-researcher, fiction writer, and columnist. His diverse writing career began in the early 1980s. While in the ninth grade, Gausur Rahman’s poem was first published in a Dhaka based newspaper. He was born on October 8, 1965. His ancestral home is in the Chhotogara locality of Netrokona city.
The land of hypocrisy, I saw cheating ruled by
With lies you feed us with betrayal you water us
From the lips of sadness sometimes he will excuse me
I wish sadness would cure us
What does patience and fortitude do in a time!
Metwally Mohamed Metwally Basal, a poet and storyteller from Egypt, shares his poetry
Metwally
The Silent Journey
Sailing on a boat, through a stormy sea
We distinguish the gaze following us from the shore
Frightened of the fate that pushes us toward the wild waves, swollen with blood
Down to the perturbed centuries
To the strange roots holding us in stasis
Rotating around the satellite that extinguishes in the
‘The Interpreter’ is the English version of Arabic novel ‘Al Tarjuman’, authored by Ashraf Aboul Yazid, an eminent writer and poet of Egypt
“The country is ours, the paper is ours, and the seal is ours.”
Mrs. “Fawz” had become accustomed to seeing me every day when I visited you, my
