{"id":658,"count":1,"description":"<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-22566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture1-300x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" \/>Yahia Lababidi, author of eleven collections of poetry and prose. His aphorisms and poems have gone viral and are used in classrooms and religious services and have been featured at international film festivals.\r\n\r\nLababidi has also contributed to news, literary, and cultural institutions throughout the USA, Europe and the Middle East, including Oxford University, Pearson, the PBS NewsHour, NPR, HBO as well as ABC Radio.\r\n\r\nHis latest work includes a collection of his aphorisms on morality and mortality, <em>Quarantine Notes<\/em> (Fomite Press, 2023) and <em>Desert Songs <\/em>(Rowayat, 2022), a bilingual, photographic account of mystical encounters in the desert, and <em>Learning to Pray<\/em>\u00a0(Kelsay Books, 2021) a collection of spiritual reflections.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/authors\/yahia-lababidi\/","name":"Yahia Lababidi","slug":"yahia-lababidi","taxonomy":"authors","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/authors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?authors=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}