At the Gates – Hazem Fahmy

At the Gates is a poetry collection by Egyptian poet Hazem Fahmy that explores identity, belonging and displacement through the layered histories of Egypt. Moving between ancient mythology, religion, politics, language and intimate experience, the poems question what it means to inherit a place and to belong to it. The collection moves between the personal and the historical, weaving questions of masculinity, sexuality, exile and memory into a fragmented search for origin.

At the Gates is a 2023 poetry chapbook, part of the annual New-Generation African Poets box set series (Tisa edition), presented in cooperation with the African Poetry Book Fund.

Hazem Fahmy is an Egyptian writer and critic based in Brooklyn. A PhD candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2020, The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Mubi Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna.