Collated and translated by Robin Moger 

Softcover, 116pp

Tenement Press, August 2026

With poems & lines
of verse by ...

Salah Abdel Sabbour
Perejaume
Dhul Rumma
Abu Ja‘far Ibn al-Abbar
Al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani
Al-Khansa Bint ‘Amr Ibn al-Sharid
Khaffaf Ibn Nadbah
Golan Haji
Luqman Ibn ‘Aad
Abu al-Walid al-Himyari
Abu Bakr Ibn al-Qutiyyah
Mohammad Ibn Mas‘oud al-Bajjani

& other texts lifted
from books by ...

Ibn Khallikan
R. Blachère
Khaireddin al-Zirikli
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani
J.E. Montgomery
Abu al-Walid al-Himyari   
Abdallah al-Tayyib
Irfan Shahîd
Diogenes Laertius
al-A‘lam al-Shantamari
Taha Hussein
Ibn Manzour
al-Ma‘arri
al-Sheikh al-Sadouq
Ibn al-Nadeem
Ibn Qutayba
‘Abdel ‘Aziz ‘Ateeq
Mohammad Abu al-Fadl
Sheikh Mustafa al-Ghalayini
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
Ibn Hisham
Ibn Bassaam al-Shantarini
Ibn ‘Umaira al-Dhabbi
Ibn al-Abbar al-Qudaa‘i
Ibn Sa‘eed al-Maghribi

Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English who lives in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. His translations of prose and poetry have appeared widely. Among his recent publications are Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir (Two Lines Press, 2025), Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door (Tenement Press, 2024), Strangers in Light Coats (Seagull Press, 2023)—a collection of the poems of Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan—and Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal (And Other Stories Press, 2023), which was a joint winner of the 2024 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.