Halakiel

About this book

Confined within a narrow room, the speaker hears repeated knocks, watches furniture speak, and senses a nightmare forming in the walls. Jinn, nocturnal demons, and the ruler Halakiel enter a dark poetic and narrative sequence where certainty repeatedly gives way to hallucination. Ali Amin Ali Ahmed moves through satirical quatrains and tragic poems, from Egyptian alleys to visions of the future and the beyond. The collection leaves readers unsure whether its apparitions are supernatural encounters or the cries of a frightened mind struggling beneath medication and alienation.