In this work, Ahmed Al-Shaykhawi presents a monitoring of diverse Arab creative experiences, armed with his high critical sense that enabled him to delve into texts and explore their inherent significations and signs. Poetry, the chosen field of experiments in this work, is the fertile mine rich with what Al-Shaykhawi termed the "paratext"; behind every read text lies another text hidden behind the words, and within every creator, there is both the expressed and the unsaid, simultaneously.

The experiences analyzed in the work are:

• The collection "The Angels Return to Work" by Abdul-Adhim Finjan from Iraq.
• Selections from the works of Ahmed Matar from Iraq.
• Selections from the works of Suad Al-Kuwari from Qatar.
• The text "I am a Woman from Your Clouds, My Love" by Rima Al-Mabrouk from Libya.
• Selections from the works of Najd Al-Qaseer from Syria.
• The poetry collection "Diogenes' Lighter" by Ezz El-Din Bourka from Morocco.
• Selections from the works of Mohamed Al-Nasser Shaikhawy from Tunisia.
• The poetry collection "Do Not Grieve" by Osama Al-Zaqzouq from Egypt.
• The collection "Awakenings" by Fawzia Al-Sindi from Bahrain.
• The collection "A Small Life" by Hassan Najmi from Morocco.
• The collection "Squirrels of the Far East - Cafes of Paris" by Saif Al-Rahbi from Oman.
• Selections from the works of Fatima Zahra Bennis from Morocco.
• Selections from the works of Mohammed Bentalha from Morocco.
• The collection "My Hills are Narrowed by Their Hawthorn" by Ammar Al-Junaidi from Jordan.
• The collection "Two Waves" by Al-Batool Mahjoubi from Morocco.
• The collection "She Unraveled Her Yarn" by Ahmed Mustafa Saeed from Egypt.

Author: Ahmed Al-Shaykhawi

Publisher: Alan Publishers and Distributors

Year of Publication: 2021