Cairo, Egypt — September 3rd, 2005 , the Three Continents Creative Meeting will bring together authors from Azerbaijan , Nigeria, China, Russia, India and Taiwan, alongside their translator, the acclaimed Egyptian poet and novelist Ashraf
Every day, countless numbers revolve around us—hidden in the daily accounts of shopkeepers, in household budgets, in the digits on electricity bills, and in children’s school fees. Most people glance at them and move on. But those who pause
With steadfast tread I climbed triumph’s towering illusion,
Mistaking vain success for life’s sovereign culmination.
Dr. Sajid Hussain, a renowned poet from Rawalpindi, Punjab province of Pakistan shares his poetry on humanity and
In 1964, in Paris, the global Egyptian star Omar Sharif was filming his famous movie Doctor Zhivago. He was living at the time with his British actor friend Sir Tom Courtenay in the same apartment. Sharif noticed Courtenay’s deep passion for
Whispers of a Butterfly
In morning light, on petals fair,
A butterfly floats through the air.
With wings of silk and colors bright,
She dances in the golden light.
She flits from bloom to blooming rose,
A painter where the wild
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, following the surrender of Germany and Japan, we were living in a ground-floor apartment on Hammouda Street, just a few meters from the southwestern outer wall of Abdeen Palace. This was due to the lack of available accommodation in my grandfather’s building at 24 Mostafa Kamel Street in the Abdeen district upon our return from Britain. I was
