Natalia Rifai, “Floating Carpet,” Srinagar, Kashmir, 1990
on Agha Shahid Ali’s 70th birth anniversary
February 4, 2019
I
In the post office, moored to the ghat,
Secret gr…
Agha Shahid Ali
WLT Weekly Categories
Recent Posts
Photo by trentinness / Adobe StockHunger Strike
In the last watch
of blood and memories,
in the last neighing
of empty stomachs,
the human tree…
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday…
Roger Allen was the first person to obtain a doctorate in modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford. After obtaining his DPhil, he joined…
Five or six years ago, I was reading Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990) with my Arabic teacher and thought of writing an article about him in English,…
Photo by J.-F. Paga (Grasset)
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and…