Harmonizing a colorful assortment of yarns (African, Arab, European, Islamic, metropolitan), Dr. Tinay manages to valiantly approach a hardly pliant loom and produce the wide range of richly textured fabrics comprising his "Perplexus" collection."

Fathelbari A. Al Hasan

Poet and Literary Critic

"In this collection, as in his previous volumes, the poet has demonstrated amazing skills in transforming the personal and subjective into universally human experiences rendered in superb verse."

Adil Babikir

Author and Literary Translator of

Modern Sudanese Poetry

Fellow, Institute of Global Translation

Ahmed's poems are distinguished by a delicate poetic sense and crafted with high professionalism and a skilled linguistic style. The poet is also able to employ his seasoned poetic and linguistic tools to tackle the varied topics in this collection with extremely high ingenuity. The deep philosophical perspectives expressed in these poems would certainly appeal to a wide range of lovers of poetry rendered in the English tongue.