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
Family is the ruling unit of the society. In the family, man and woman are often seen fighting. They do not find compatibility and sometimes think of killing the other partner, or even getting rid of him or her
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A partner who does not agree is better than a neighbour who agrees with you. For, that amounts to
They march
They learn to face their fear
They learn to protest
They protest against a murder
They want justice
They learn to unite and march.
Suhina Biswasmajumdar, an eminent poet from Kolkata, West Bengal, shares a poem she wrote for a promising doctor recently gang-raped and murdered in Kolkata
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The health ministry on Friday said Italy has raised diagnostic surveillance for mpox, noting that the situation is under control.
"The epidemiological situation in Italy at the moment is under control as no cases have been ascertained of the new strain (clade I) of mpox", the ministry said as quoted by Italian news agency
