André Naffis-Sahely’s debut collection of poetry, The Promised Land, will be published by Penguin in 2017. He has translated works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Rashid Boudjedra, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Abdellatif Laâbi, among various others.
Translator’s note: Considered Morocco’s greatest living poet, Abdellatif Laâbi wrote this poem in 1975, roughly three years into his decade-long prison sentence, one of many thousan...
London. Darf. 2015. 378 pages.
Few non-Western cities have penetrated our consciousness like Benghazi, Libya, following the 2012 attack on the American mission there, yet most of us know little about...
André Naffis-Sahely, tr. & afterword. London. Arabia Books. 2012. ISBN 9781906697426
When Rashid and Omar spend an hour together on a flight from Algiers to Constantine, the former decides he will...
André Naffis-Sahely, tr. Brooklyn, New York. Island Position. 2012. ISBN 9780984845316
It is unfortunate that Moroccan poet and novelist Abdellatif Laâbi is not better known in the English-speak-ing...