April 2010

About this book

Abdelrahman Abbas writes in Egyptian colloquial Arabic about love, aspirations and the difficulties of everyday life. Personal experience opens onto shared feelings, as joy sits alongside sadness and longing, and small moments become occasions for attention. The collection's hopeful outlook responds to discouragement rather than ignoring it. Through language close to everyday speech, the poems make room for nostalgia and the wish to keep pursuing one's dreams, finding emotional significance in experiences that may otherwise seem ordinary.