Soon after the Permanent Bureau of the Afro-Asian Writers Association in Cairo folded, a poet from Pakistan by the name of Faiz Ahmed Faiz arrived in Beirut to take over…
“There is no god but God!” gave way to more passionate and perverse political refrains: “No more Palestine, no more Palestine! Arafat, round up your dogs!”
The second time I met Michael C. Vazquez was the first time I heard that Lotus, the Journal of Afro-Asian Writings, had been published out of Cairo.
Tashkent 1958. I try and imagine it for a moment. The first conference of the Afro-Asian Writers is in session.
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