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Ahmad Al-Shahawy [Egypt]

    He Doesn't Know   The wet bird has a story, Only Sulaiman and Ahmad realize it, When he reaches the sun, with his fingertips. The bird has a birth certificate, an ID card, and a passport. He prays, performs hajj, and barely reads. He deactivates the effect of sorcery with the amulets of feathers. He forgets his parents. He doesn't know if he was an orphan or whether they picked him up from the street   (Translated by Dr. Sara Hamid Hawass)     Don't Lie the Sun   I am not ambiguous, to the extent that a butterfly gets confused in understanding me, or to the extent that the sky doubts, the name of my soul. Only when I love, I grant myself, until I have nothing left but you. I open the box, until the sea runs out of words. So I throw two stones of doubt, and two arrows of the perfume of qualms. (Translated by Dr. Sara Hamid Hawass)     With Two Letters of his Name   On my last point, my ship got lost, and I don't want Noah to tell his ...