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PAUL E NELSON

Habib in Seattle, Part Deux

We left off with El Habib Louai’s first sushi experience with Sam Hamill and his daughter Eron and I at Sakura in Burlington. (See this post.) Monday (8.12.13) Habib got to go thrift shopping with my wife Meredith, a thrift store expert and fan of the song of...

Habib in Seattle

Looking back, it was October 2011 when I accepted a friend request from a man I had never met, or heard of, named El Habib Louai. He said he was a Moroccan poet and I tend to accept friend requests from poets. Right off the bat he also explained he was a Beat scholar...

Talk at North Cascades Institute

El Habib Louai concludes his tour of Cascadia on Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 7p as he talks to participants in this year’s Beats on the Peaks event, produced by the North Cascades Institute. Habib will speak about the Beat connection with Morocco and the...