In June 2023, four indigenous children were lost in the rainforest in Colombia after their plane crashed and mother died. Thankfully, they army found them alive. Mommy rest in peace our jungle Cessna stuttered and shattered piece from piece draped all over the canopy. Throughout these 40 days like 40 years of wilderness we [...]
Introducing Mashriqi English مشرقى انگلش an experimental poetic style which melds Anglo-Saxon words with the Perso-Arabic tradition, to emulate the style of poetic languages like Urdu. No Ārāmī Not a lahza-e āshtī is mānda to me all I have now is umīd-e fardā this zindagī is a ranj-o-kamī an overstretched tear and a khafa sadā [...]
Little kids need little egos To be fed and given love Icky grown-ups with big egos Need a smite from high above When a kid says “see my drawing!” Though it sucks, I’ll aah and ooh But with grown-ups, there’s no hawing I’ll just say “your work is poo.”
I first translated the Jabberwocky in 2010. This is a rewrite of that version. This is the first and only Arabic translation of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky (Through the Looking-Glass, 1871). The structure of Arabic, with its fluid interplay of consonant and vowel, makes it ideal to render the Jabberwocky. It was fun [...]
a patch of skin peeped shyly showing off serendipitous diamond made between the collar leaves and scarf a crimson sunset captured by luscious milk turquoise-silver butterfly in its center.
Let us jump straight into the subject with a somewhat ad hoc definition: a childish society is a society in which the bulk of adults do not live up to their intellectual and emotional potential as fully grown human beings. In other words, an observer might sense a lack or distortion of the kind of [...]
Long-necked and -legged lady with ruddy gentleman hashing out desert road trip to Abu Dhabi with liveried driver Fabulous African woman two Caucasians all tall matching black Ts brand transparent box with squeaky white adidas sneakers the trio work laptop then abruptly take off Circle of rotund Egyptian good-fellows fresh back from consumerist jaunt discussing [...]
We often hear people, not only in the West but increasingly in the East (as we progressively and inexorably adopt Western language and the thinking that goes with it) say, “I’m not really religious, just spiritual.” I cannot help but question such a lazy and prepackaged assertion. It’s exactly like saying: I don’t eat a [...]
As I read a line of scripture, or pore over a prayer as I listen to a warning tale or a shard or two of poetry. When I hear a new, old word from an old timer in the majlis¹ – slow-moving but quick of tongue (subhanallah²) – as he sips his darkened tea. I [...]
When I started this blog about 11 years ago, I didn’t realize how few preoccupations I had. This meant that I could concentrate better on writing, in addition to the fact that I was a decade younger younger with more brain juice and better memory. Nowadays, I can’t sit down to write for 15 minutes [...]
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