Yahia Lababidi's first book, Signposts to Elsewhere, out in November 2006, has already garnered generous reviews  from reputable American poets; please visit his website:  http://www.sun-rising-poetry.com/signposts.htm. Further, his writings are to be featured in an Encyclopedia of theWorld's Aphorists, by author James Geary, due 2007. Meantime, Lababidi's articles, essays and poems have appeared in international journals: Leviathan: Melville Studies (USA), Cimarron Review (USA), Ruminate (USA), The Idler (UK), Dream Catcher (UK), Arena (Australia), Montreal Serai (Canada), RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc), Bidoun: Middle East Arts and Culture magazine as well as regional lifestyle magazines Carnival Arabia and  Enigma (Egypt).