Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, Fajr al-salām, 1st ed. (Ṭarābulus: Dār al-Kitāb al-ʿArabī; Bayrūt: Dār al-ʿAwdah, 1974)
This edition includes a Foreword by Nājī ʿAllūsh and Iḥsān ʿAbbās's chapter on Fajr al-salām from his biography about Sayyāb. The poem was originally published in a chapbook in 1950.
ʿInānī's rendering of the protagonist of The Committee comes very close to his caricature of Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm...
From the 1982 Maṭbūʿāt al-Qāhirah edition, published in the spring and illustrated by the Egyptian artist Ṣalāḥ ʿInānī, born in 1955. You can find many of his playful portraits of everyday Egyptians online; the images in this edition of Ibrāhīm's modern classic The Committee carry a distinct hint of Ralph Steadman's drawings, particularly those he made of Hunter S. Thompson. Consider, for instance, The Doctor, whom ʿInānī portrays with jackboots, spectacles, and a menacing smile complete with a companion bird. He makes the stuff of nightmares oddly playful, and therefore jarring, uncanny, but all too real.
Published in Tripoli, Lebanon (1990)
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.
From Forgotten Songs.