Haytham El-Wardany(Is this your profile?)

Born 1972 in Cairo, Egypt; lives and works in Berlin, Germany.Haytham El-Wardany is a writer, translator, and the author of How to Disappear (2013) and The Book of Sleep (2017). In a pocket-sized format, How To Disappear explores the potentialities of passivity and unproductive action. The Book of Sleep offers insight into the dialectics of sleep as it relates to resistance, change, and revolution. Combining fragments of poetry, philosophical reflection and storytelling, El-Wardany destabilizes the active/passive binary that is foundational to our perception of political resistance, instead circling around a subject rife with metaphor. “[Sleep’s] journey of descent continues and return is only accomplished when it ceases to be aware of any distinction...