Kahil El-Ein (Homoerotic Poems in Colloquial Arabic)

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"Kahil El-Ein" (which means in Arabic: he whose eye is dark as if kohl is applied to it), is a collection of poems in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, focusing on male erotica. It is inspired by what poets in the Abbasids era - such as Abu Nuwas - had written during the ninth and tenth centuries. These poets wrote extensively and most openly homoerotic verses - encouraged by the extreme tolerance of that era - in which they expressed their love for boys and adolescents, describing the beauty of their face and body, including their private parts such as their buttocks and genitals, as well as details of their intercourse with them. Poems in "Kahil El-Ein" matches all this, but even go further by focusing particularly and forcibly on lovemaking among men. It sometimes uses words and language that might be considered obscene, but which are justified artisticly.