Under the morning breeze
Silver dew burns
The fragrance falls in the air.
Manik Chakraborty, a renowned rhymer from Bangladesh, shares his poetry
Poet Manik Chakraborty, a man of simple nature, is a well-developed and intellectual consciousness in the unique creations of Bengali Rhymes Literature. The free movement of rhymes
Rituals are the password and key to the wonderful novel (The Devil of Al-Khidr) by the writer Muhammad Ibrahim Taha, those rituals that start from the first scene and never go away through the pages of the novel, which relies on a rural popular memory.
But before entering the novelistic text, we must question the title, as Al-Khidr in the
No amount of tears
Can repair the hemorrhage.
Healing is not always glorious.
Though light guides and softens pain,
It can singe as a wildfire.
Barbara Leonhard, a poet from USA, shares her poetry
Barbara Leonhard is the author of the best-selling Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF, 2022) and co-author with
I almost claim that the art of autobiography in Arabic literature has been greatly wronged by its writers, who have taken it out of the framework of history, documentation, and written confession, into the space of beautifying the writing selves, improving faded images, and even inventing fake histories that rely on ignorance of the
No one sees them, pretending not to notice,
They remain the ghosts of misery living among us,
Some whisper that they pollute us so much,
Somebody who have never seen misery in life.
Kujtim Hajdari, an Albanian exiled poet, shares his poems
Kujtim Hajdari was born in Hajdaraj, on April 10, 1956, in the city of Lushnjë,