Azerbaijan literary pantheon launches “Street in Cairo” Russian version | Tellwell Newspaper
Tellwell Newspaper, Abuja – Nigeria: One of Africa’s literary giants has added another feather to his corpus with the Russian translation of one his major works coming up on September 17.
Constellations of literary pantheons will congregate in the Azerbaijani capital Baku to celebrate another feat by the renown Egyptian poet and novelist Ashraf Abu Al-Yazid, popularly called Ashraf Dali, with the launching of the Russian version of his work “Street in Cairo”.
The book was translated by another literary colossus, Eldar Akhadov, a member of the Union of Russian Writers and honorary member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan.
“Street in Cairo” is one of Ashraf Dali’s works in Arabic which have been translated into eight foreign languages –
English, Spanish, Turkish, Persian, Korean, Malayalam, Sindhi and German.
Russian Information and Cultural Center in Baku or the “Russian House”, as it is famously called, would host the literary event, organized with the assistance of Russian Book House in Baku and the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union.
Ashraf Abu Al-Yazid is also an outstanding journalist. He is currently the president of Asia Journalist Association and the Editor-in-Chief of The Silk Road Literature Series, who has travelled across 35 countries for the past two decades.
