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Harmonizing a colorful assortment of yarns (African, Arab, European, Islamic, metropolitan), Dr. Tinay manages to valiantly approach a hardly pliant loom and produce the wide range of richly textured fabrics comprising his "Perplexus" collection." Fathelbari A. Al Hasan Poet and Literary Critic
"In this collection, as in his previous volumes, the poet has demonstrated amazing skills in transforming the personal and subjective into universally human experiences rendered in superb verse."
Adil BabikirAuthor and Literary Translator ofModern Sudanese Poetry Fellow, Institute of Global Translation
Ahmed's poems are distinguished by a delicate poetic sense and crafted with high professionalism and a skilled linguistic style. The poet is also able to employ his seasoned poetic and linguistic tools to tackle the varied topics in this collection with extremely high ingenuity. The deep philosophical perspectives expressed in these poems would certainly appeal to a wide range of lovers of poetry rendered in the English tongue.
About the author
Ahmed El-Badawi Mustafa Omer El-Tinay graduated from the Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum, with honors in English and Linguistics. He received his higher education at both the Universities of Florida and Minnesota, USA, in multilingual and multicultural education, human resource development, and organizational development. His poetic talent bloomed when he was twelve years old, and he published Chants of Boyhood in 2014, The Aroma of the Sandal Wood in 2016, and A Flood from the Bosom in 2019. Five more books are being printed this year. Eight are in Arabic, while Perplexus is his first English collection of poems.
