Knife Sharpener – Selected PoemsKnife Sharpener Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, Poetry and Memory, written a few months before he died in October 2007. With a Foreword by Adonis and an Introduction by Dublin poet and publisher Pat Boran, the volume includes nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow poets and writers Saadi

There is another commandment that it is the role of the husband to ensure that the woman is sexually satisfied

Fadhil al-Azzawi on Jalil al-Qaisi

While Boccaccio does not go so far as directly to question the social or religious fabric of medieval society

The Ballerina

as he calls them

more and more connections were revealed

Voices of Exiles : A Study of al-Tayyib Salih and his Work by Ami Elad-Bouskila

translated by Sinan Antoon

Mihai Ursachi

Terence Dooley: A version of Raymond Queneau’s ‘La Pendule’

is pursuing a story she is keeping from her assistant and lover

Whatever their origin