Al-Eskandarany, Hussam

This is Hussam Al-Eskandarany's second small collection of poems in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, after his first "Kahil El-Ein." As the first, the only subject of the verses is homoerotic relations and situations. He uses a direct, shameless, and daring style in dealing with the sensitive and delicate issues of homosexuality, in a language which sometimes could be considered crude. This is unusual in modern literature, but reminiscent of the fearless style of Baghdad poets during the Abbasids era. The main important difference here is that Al-Eskandarany's verses are in colloquial Arabic, while...