Roses, Ruins, and Resistance: Reading Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden is a profoundly human, polyphonic novel set in contemporary Egypt. It weaves together the lives of individuals in the village of Kafr El-Sarai, focusing particularly…
Poets from Across Continents Unite for Palestine in a Powerful Video Poetry Tribute
On July 4, 2025, poets from fifteen countries—Spain, Italy, Egypt, El Salvador, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Peru—gathered their voices in a…
The Star Poets Talk Show Interviews Ashraf Aboul-Yazid
Welcome everyone to the 221th episode of Uddan Little Magazine’s live show We are working in different branches of literature. We want to build a sky of Literature. We are…
It was war and nothing before it by Mohamed Hosni Eliwa, Egypt
It was war and nothing before it by Mohamed Hosni Eliwa, Egypt [To the dead who were left behind Without guidance: their seats Their sweets hidden in the bent-backed bags…
Moon Beneath the Rubble by Weam Abo Shady, Egypt
Moon Beneath the Rubble by Weam Abo Shady, Egypt I know her by her hair And like you I also know her from her poetry By the scent of homes Prophetic in…
I will call you mom by Gamal Alkassas, Egypt
I will call you mom by Gamal Alkassas, Egypt This devastating war Would not block the road It will always be born of your thirst From your hunger From…
Do you know? By Khaled Al-Sindyoni, Egypt
Do you know? By Khaled Al-Sindyoni There is no word in this era More monstrous than the word “project” Whether it originally meant a “preliminary plan” Or “throwing something forward.” But what lingers…
Palestine | A Poem Every Day
Mu’in Tawfiq Bseiso Mu’in Tawfiq Bseiso (1926 – January 23, 1984)) was a Palestinian poet who lived in Egypt. He finished his primary and secondary education in Gaza in 1948. On January 27, 1952, he published his…
Palestine | A Poem Every Day
Ahmed Nabawi Ahmed Nabawi is an Egyptian poet and academic renowned for his exploration of humanitarian themes in his poetry. He embarked on his poetic journey in the early 1990s…
Palestine | A Poem Every Day
Sherif Kandil Sherif Kandil (1960) is an Egyptian journalist and member of the British and Egyptian Journalists Syndicate. He won the Arab Journalism Award for the best journalistic interviews.…















