Lababidi, Yahia

YAHIA LABABIDI is an internationally published writer of Egyptian-Lebanese origin. His essays and poems have appeared in journals world-wide. He is the author of a book of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press, 2008), and he is the only contemporary Arab author to be included in the acclaimed encyclopedia, Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists. An editor at UNESCO Cairo Office in Egypt for nearly a decade, Lababidi is currently a freelance writer based in the U.S.