Pro Eto - That's What Moncef Mezghanni

Pro Eto - That's What Moncef MezghanniVladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. His fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of poets poet, the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, (Pasternak among them). His poetry is strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its erotic thrust, bluesy complaints and cries of pain, not to

the atmospheric writer Enas al-Badran

translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi

Kat Pomfret – author of Paradise Jazz

John Pilger

From the age of 20 she reported from Sudan

Yevgeny Rein

When the banquet is over

Of your lips and your mouth

So he awoke

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Ahmed Alaidy Excerpt from Being Abbas el Abd

Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates (selected