Sheir Fi Ghazal Al Muthakkar (Homoerotic Male Love Poems)

This book contains a selection of homoerotic male-love poems in classical and Egyptian-colloquial Arabic. The authors as well as the times in which these poems were written are unknown. They were found in a manuscript written by a man called Marwan Al Wardany, who mentions in a short introduction that he collected and edited the poems he had gathered from various sources. Nothing is known about Al Wardany himself either, and he could be using a pen-name. He could even be the author of the poems. The poems are very erotic, and often use very crude sexual language. It might have been inspired by poetry from the Abbasids era, when poets - such as Abu Nuwas - wrote many male-love poems using outrageously open sexual language. From the style of the colloquial-Arabic, it is obvious that it is in Egyptian dialect. A general look at the content and linguistic approach, it is thought that all the poems were written in rather recent times, such as the early 20th century. It is also clear that their purpose was to express passion for the male, and to arouse desire for sexual exploits among men.