The Egyptian-American thinker is the well-received author of Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press, 2008), a collection of aphorisms; Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly-dancing (Common Ground Publishing, 2010), a book of essays; Fever Dreams (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011), poetry; The Artist as Mystic (Onesuch Press, 2012), lyric conversations between aphorists Yahia Lababidi and Alex Stein; and, most recently, Barely There: Short Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2013). (Read an interview with Yahia and two of his poems at Bazaar Magazine. Yahia also spoke recently with NPR; listen to "An Artist's Story of the Arab Spring".)