Cover of al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār's al-Zilzāl
Night Everywhere
The final image in He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966), p. 77. A dead bird lies on its back at the foot of a tree growing to the side of a wall. It follows the poem, "Night Everywhere" (الليل في كل مكان)
Death
From p. 67 of He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966), following the poem "Death" (الموت). A wolf eats a dead woman, struck down by arrows. Carrion birds wait on the margins.
The Third Vision
This image follows the poem "The Third Vision" (الرؤيا الثالثة) in al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966)
He Who Comes and Does Not Come
The charcoal version of our first post, from p. 43 of al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come, 1st ed. (1966). Art by Ādam Ḥanīn.
The Dead Do Not Sleep
From page 37 of al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966). An angel drops something onto Nishapur, where, like the title of the preceding poem, the "dead do not sleep."
A Hunting Poem (طردية)
Another image from the 1st edition of al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966), p. 31.
A hunt scene, a representation of the ṭardiyyah poem that precedes the image, featuring spotted dogs and birds in flight.
In the Bar of the Fates (في حانة الأقدار)
ِAnother image from the 1st edition of al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966), p. 25. Al-Khayyām sits in the middle of the scene.
Beirut 75
Cover of Ghādah al-Sammān's original Beirut 75, courtesy of @kdrastegar.
The Story of Zahra (حكاية زهرة)
Cover of 1989 Dār al-Ādāb edition of Ḥanān al-Shaykh's Ḥikāyat Zahrah. Art by by Mahā Naṣrallāh.
Words and Guns
Sixth (and last) in a series by Mona Saudi, in Ghassān Kanafānī's al-Āthār al-kāmilah, Vol. 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʿah, 1972).
Fidāʾī
Fifth in a series by Mona Saudi, in Ghassān Kanafānī's al-Āthār al-kāmilah, Vol. 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʿah, 1972).
Lovers
Fourth in a series by Mona Saudi, in Ghassān Kanafānī's al-Āthār al-kāmilah, Vol. 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʿah, 1972).
Frame
Third in a series by Mona Saudi, in Ghassān Kanafānī's al-Āthār al-kāmilah, Vol. 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʿah, 1972).
A Cave
Second in a series by Mona Saudi, in Ghassān Kanafānī's al-Āthār al-kāmilah, Vol. 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʿah, 1972).
Accumulated Catastrophes
Today begins a series of illustrations by Mona Saudi, in Ghassān Kanafānī's al-Āthār al-kāmilah, Vol. 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʿah, 1972).
A Savior over Nishapur
From p. 19 of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's He Who Comes and Does Not Come (1966), this image follows the final lines of "Night Over Nishapur."
"To read the book upside down / poring over its margins for what was written and concealed / we had to put on the light / in the sky of Nishapur."
Land of Sad Oranges (أرض البرتقال الحزين)
Cover of Ghassān Kanafānī's 1963 Arḍ al-burtuqāl al-ḥazīn (Beirut: Manshūrāt Dār al-Fajr al-Jadīd)
The cover of a 1st edition copy of Maḥmūd Darwīsh's A Lover From Palestine (Beirut: Manshūrāt Dār al-Ādāb, 1968).
A Lover From Palestine, 1968 (عاشق من فلسطين)
Cover of Ghassān Kanafānī's 1969 collection of short stories, Umm Saʿd : qiṣaṣ filasṭīniyyah (Bayrūt: Dār al-ʿAwdah).