Yahia Lababidi

Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian American, is the author of six books of poetry and prose. His forthcoming book, Where Epics Fail: Aphorisms on Art, Morality and Life of the Spirit, was featured on the PBS NewsHour and generously endorsed by Richard Blanco, Barack Obama’s inaugural poet. Epics will be published in early spring 2018 by Unbound, in partnership with Penguin Random House, and is available for preorder.

Spring 2019

Where Epics Fail: Meditations to Live By by Yahia Lababidi

London. Unbound. 2018. 256 pages. Yahia Lababidi has done something at once anachronistic and deeply contemporary with Where Epics Fail, his wide-ranging collection of aphorisms. The book is...
November 2017

Seeking the Light through Literature

Agostino Arrivabene (b. 1967, Italy), Androgynous, 2016, oil, gold leaf on linen, 50x40cm. Courtesy of the artist. Religion is at its best when it becomes a countercultural forc...
May 2016

Balancing Acts by Yahia Lababidi

Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Press 53. 2016. 204 pages. Mystical and modern, Yahia Lababidi’s Balancing Acts, a collection of poems spanning across a career of decades, tethers together a...