You Made a Flood

About this book

Written in response to the continuing events in Palestine, this poetry collection seeks clarity without disguising pain or surrendering to slogans. Across fifteen poems in formal Arabic and Egyptian colloquial verse, Sami Lotfy Al-Baroudi reflects on war, lost innocence, destruction, hunger, and decisions whose price is paid in civilian lives. The poems challenge the reduction of human beings to pieces in political games and call instead for awareness, dialogue, peace, and the work of building nations. You Made a Flood presents poetry as an act of conscience in the face of violence.