Youssef Rakha: 3 books

"Somehow I forgot to mention something else. Yes. A history-of-literature digression. It is about the Nineties. There was a flowering of poetry then. Shafie – I too – came later. The poetry of the Nineties claimed to be individualistic and pluralistic and subversive. That is why it is a reference...

Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs,...

Was unterscheidet den arabischen Porno von seinem westlichen Pendant? Die Motive? Die Einstellungen, Perspektiven? Die Techniken? Mit Begeisterung untersucht der ägyptische Schriftsteller und Journalist Youssef Rakha in diesem aufregenden englischsprachigen Essay, den er auf Arabisch so nicht hätte...