Mohamed Fityan

I want my country to know of the one who has seen all things.
He who was wise and knew of everything,
He who saw secret things and disclosed what was ...

Shamash, moreover, endowed him with fairness,
Adad, with courage.
In him was two thirds a god one third a man.
The men in Uruk constantly stood in awe...

She stripped off her clothes, let her veil fall off her breast,
She initiated this primitive man.
In his amorous passion he covered her body with stro...

Together they went down into the forest
and they came to the green mountain.
There, they stood still and gazed at the forest.
They saw the height of t...

Then they washed their hands in the Euphrates, they embraced each other and went away. They drove through the streets of Uruk where the inhabitants we...

The courtesan tore her dress in two; with the one half she clothed him and with the other herself. Taking his hand into hers, as a child’s, she led hi...

They embraced each other and their friendship was sealed. The eyes of Enkidu were full of tears. He left sad at heart, weary, and he tortured himself....

When Ishtar heard this, she fell into a bitter rage. She went up to Heaven to see her father Anu. Ishtar besought her father:
“ My father, give me the...

Gilgamesh asked Siduri* to reveal to him the means to know one’s way to Uta-napishtim, the Far-away. Siduri told him to go and see Urshanabi - the fer...

Uta-Napishtim told him: “why is there so much anguish inside you, you who are made of the flesh of gods?
There is no permanence.
Do we build a house t...

I want my country to know of the one who has seen all things.
He who was wise and knew of everything,
He who saw secret things and disclosed what was ...