Mohammad Salama is professor and coordinator of the Arabic Program at San Francisco State University. His recent books include The Qur’an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism: From Taha to Nasr (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Chris Barnes, Egypt, December 2010 / Flickr
To Hisham Harbi
who said to me: “don’t stay in the shadows”
but I didn’t listen Epigraph
rushing as always,
my shadow jumped
but I…
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