Poetry. African Studies. From the river Nile to the teeming streets of Cairo, from the indigenous, pre-Islamic Egyptian Coptic civilization to an American struggling with its fear of the Arab world, Shenoda's poems recall the sacred traditions of an ancient, enduring culture as they widen the political conversation surrounding ethnicity, pan-Africanism and pan-Arabism. This noable collection spans generational, political and cultural divides, providing a nuanced perspective virtually uknown in the West. Shenoda teach at San Francisco State University and works as a community and racial justic activist in the Bay Area.