After twenty-five long years, I finally confided in Haifa. I told her what I had hidden in silence for so long. I revealed ...

I was jealous of you, Haifa. I hid from others a fire that devoured me with madness. I bound that fire in chains of iron, ...

At your whispers my imagination opens the doors of my senses and the ears of my love wide. Enter, a thousand welcomes, like a ...

It is in this spirit that the Yemeni researcher and writer Mustafa Rajeh presents his book, The Guide of the Luminaries in ...

Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi . When I began speaking with the Yemeni poet Abdulghani Al-Mekhlafi, I immediately felt the richness of ...

Yet when she turns from me without so much as a glance, I feel scattered, my soul splintered and my hopes shattered. A sorrow ...

Her spell called me from afar to come near, and her light in the shadowed night summoned me. I approached and found myself ...

I stole glances at Noor Al Lahjiya like a thief, my heart trembling. I despise the deeds of thieves, O God — so why have You ...

The words “I found the one for you” struck me like Archimedes’ own cry of “Eureka! I have found it!” I urged him again and ...

I am still searching for lost justice in a land of cruelty and oppression. My God — I am the tanner’s son, tanned by poverty ...

During my studies at the “Proletariat” Secondary School, I fell in love with a girl from Aden—beautiful, delicate, and ...

At this stage in life, one often feels incapable of fully meeting the needs of their family. After years of labor and ...