The poet, critic and artist Mohamed Okasha faces our creative life with more than one mask. We can describe these masks accurately when we read his poetic and prose texts, follow his critical analyses, or stand before his sculptural works.
How to
We follow the swing that the narrator took in “Bitter Orange” by the Lebanese writer Basma ElKhatib (Dar Al-Adab) as a deceptive, rotating place from which she appears to tell, between a backward jolt that overlooks a past in which the most
All souls need a sky of their own
That holds a blooming sun even at night,
That can keep all dead insides alive
Sprinkling its pure light…
Dr. Eity Mithila, a renowned poet from Bangladesh, shares her poems
Dr. Eity Mithila is
And I ask myself rhetorically,
Where am I in all this chaos?
In a moment of lucidity,
Or perhaps in a dream,
That will open a portal
To the true life.
Corina Junghiatu, internationally acclaimed poet from Romania, shares her poetry
Great Poetry Movement, also Great Poeticism, is a poetic trend in the Chinese poetry world in the 21st century. Great poetry can be traced back to epic poetry. It was proposed by Chinese poet Hai Zi in the 1980s, and in 2007, poet Cao Shui wrote the
At 6:30 PM on Wednesday, April 23, Cairo will shimmer with the cultural spirit of India and the music of its letters, as Darna Museum, founded by artist, critic, and novelist Abdel Razek Okasha, hosts the inaugural session of the Afro-Asian Literary Forum. This unique cultural evening brings together writers and translators from Egypt and India in an exceptional intellectual gathering on the banks of
