the atmosphere following the calamitous 1967 defeat of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in what is known in the West as the Six-Day War led to stop writing poetry for almost thirty years. His translation of Omani author Ghalya F T Al Said’s novel The Madness of Despair is also published by Banipal Books, 2021.įrom the Introduction by translator Raphael Cohen. His fiction in translation includes novels by authors George Yarak, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Mohamed Salmawy and Mona Prince. He has translated, for Banipal magazine, a growing number of works by contemporary Arab poets, including Ahmed Rashid Thani, Hala Mohammad, Samer Abu Hawwash, Ahmed Al-Mulla and Marwan Makhoul. Raphael Cohen is a professional translator and lexicographer who studied Arabic and Hebrew at Oxford University and the University of Chicago. In Cairo, Morsi co-founded and was editor-in-chief of the avant-garde literary magazine Galerie '68. Later, living in Baghdad from 1955 to 1957 when it was a literary, artistic and intellectual hub, he nurtured his art criticism, working with Iraq’s modernist writers and painters, before returning to Egypt. From early on, he became a part of Alexandria’s literary and artistic society.

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