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from Plumes et Poils de Roubaiyat (Salah Jahine/Walid Taher)
Ask, and ye shall receive, @McShelfington!
from Plumes et Poils de Roubaiyat (Salah Jahine/Walid Taher)
I picked this up at the Institut du monde arabe while in Paris this summer. It is a selection of quatrains by the Egyptian poet Salah Jahin, with magnificent illustrations by Walid Taher. I started my crude translations when I returned home...my French isn't good enough to truly understand them, but they seem to me whimsical in an Edward Lear-ish sort of way, but more philosophical.
(Book tagged here is the only available approximation.)