This book contains a selection of homoerotic male-love poems in classical and Egyptian-colloquial Arabic. The authors as well as the times in which these poems were written are unknown. They were found in a manuscript written by a man called Marwan Al Wardany, who mentions in a short introduction that he collected and edited the poems he had gathered from various sources. Nothing is known about Al Wardany himself either, and he could be using a pen-name. He could even be the author of the poems. The poems are very erotic, and often use very crude sexual language. It might have been inspired...