Frightening New Furniture Tom Sexton This year has begun on

This year has begun on a high note for translating Arab literature

Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humour

"Literature is the doorway to a country's soul"

Albert Cossery – Appreciation

Khaled Mattawa once remarked how rare it was "to see a poet growing in experimentation as he grows in age"

Frightening New Furniture Tom Sexton This year has begun on" a social critique as lithe and imaginative as that of the con merchants who run the show A satire which eschews moderation and openly admits its own savagery can only succeed." Justin Quinn, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800 2000 "This is work which raises the question of what the political poem can be, for us now, in our several cultures." Siobhan Campbell, Dissent Magazine " wonderfully inventive imagery" Laurie Smith, Magma