Kholouat al kateb al nabeel (The Noble Writer’s Solitude) by Shabaan Youssef, Cairo: General Organisation for Cultural Palaces, 2012. 160pp The recently published book is a tribut to the late Egyptian author, Ibrahim Aslan, written by poet Shabaan Youssef. The book includes some of the Aslan's unpublished works, in addition to some articles by a number of renown critics. It also includes some testimonies of Aslan’s friends and peers, including Naguib Mahfouz, Said El-Kafrawy and others.