Yahia Lababidi, is an Egyptian-American writer. He is the author of three collections: Signposts to Elsewhere (aphorisms); Trial by Ink (Essays) and Fever Dreams (poems). Lababidi has recently publish a new book, The Artist As Mystic - http://www.onesuchpress.com/index.php/books/121-the-artist-as-mystic 

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Lababidi is a Pushcart-nominated poet, aphorist and essayist. His work has appeared in several anthologies, such as Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists, where he is the only contemporary Arab poet featured, and the best-selling US college textbook, Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. To date, Lababidi’s writing has been translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Slovak, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, and Turkish.  Last year, he was chosen as a juror for the 2012 Neustadt International Prize (widely considered the most prestigious international prize after Nobel Prize in Literature.)