Cecilia Kak

Sahara

Arts & Literature

“Ahmed Elbeshlawy’s poetic voice is eclectic. Sahara is at once a love saga, a work of philosophy, and a cultural critique. Those Hong Kong-Egypt-based poems are not only written with great passion but are also the product of an interdisciplinary mind that shifts sharply—and delightfully—between the urban, the literary, the social, and the psychoanalytic.”