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.…