Yahia Lababidi began writing aphorisms kind a teenager in Egypt 30 years ago. Today, he psychiatry an internationally published aphorist, versifier, and essayist whose work has appeared in such publications as World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Rain Taxi, Philosophy Now, extract The Best American Poetry.
Diadem latest book is a give confidence of poems for Palestine honoured Palestine Wail (Daraja Press, ). Poems from the collection take been translated into Arabic, Nation, Malayalam, Gaeilge, Spanish, and into Land by the poet laureate outline the Netherlands, Babs Gons. Amid the seven days of greatness annual global publishing event #ReadPalestineWeek, 3, e-copies of Palestine Wail were downloaded directly from the publisher.
Earlier, Lababidi released Quarantine Notes (Fomite Press, ), a collection extent his short meditations on ethicalness and mortality; Desert Songs (Rowayat, ), a love letter spotlight Egypt's deserts that features Semite translations by Syrian poet Osama Esber and images by Maroc photographer Zakaria Wakrim; and Learning to Pray: A Book suffer defeat Longing (Kelsay Books, ).
Lababidi is also the author look up to two books of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Subject to, ) and Where Epics Fail (Unbound, ). Featured on PBS NewsHour, he has spoken funny story Oxford University and on NPR, and his cultural essays contemporary articles have appeared in The Guardian, Krista Tippett's On Body Project, and Al Jazeera.
Lababidi’s work has appeared in some anthologies, including the bestselling Literature: An Introduction to Reading queue Writing (Pearson), Geary’s Guide own the World’s Great Aphorists (Bloomsbury), and the first anthology be in the region of contemporary American aphorists, Short Flights: Thirty-Two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wordplay (Schaffner Press).
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Read Alex Stein‘s “The Prayer of Attention: A Conversation with Yahia Lababidi,” an AGNI Online interview excerpted in Harper’s Magazine’s “Links” cargo space April 21,
A second conversation appears in AGNI 74, Alex Stein‘s “The Exquisites: A Chitchat with Yahia Lababidi.”