André Naffis-Sahely

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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.

Death: A Poem

June 28, 2016 | Abdellatif Laâbi

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...
The Colonial Conquest, Volume 1 of The Confines of the Shadow by Alessandro Spina

By Alessandro Spina

March 2016
Alessandro Spina

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...
The Barbary Figs by Rashid Boudjedra

By Rashid Boudjedra

September 2013
Rashid Boudjedra

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...
The Rule of Barbarism by Abdellatif Laâbi

By Abdellatif Laâbi

March 2013
Abdellatif Laâbi

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...