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…
Sastri Bakry’s Sakti: A Testimony of Love and Resilience
Sastri Bakry’s Sakti (2025) is a collection of thirty-seven poems that merges themes from personal memory, social conscience to spiritual sensibilities. Originally composed in Bhasa Indonesian, this collection offers the…
Eldar Akhadov’s Pearl-Silver Light of My Memory: A Kaleidoscope of Love, Memory, and Imagination
Eldar Akhadov’s Pearl-Silver Light of My Memory (Aabs Publishing House, 2025) is an expansive and genre-defying poetry collection that merges philosophical parables, lyrical confessions, whimsical tales, and heartfelt reflections. The…
Keshab Sigdel: “Poetry is a gaze that does not abdicate”
With Embargo, Nepali poet Keshab Sigdel invites us on an inner journey through the plural landscapes of contemporary Asia. Between the Himalayan lakes, the industrial lanes of China and the…











