'Style Guide,' a Poem by Adam Makary
Say clash, say escalation, say cycle of violence / even if one side owned all the sky.
Editor’s note: Adam Makary is an Egyptian-American writer based in Cairo. An Izzy Award nominee, he has reported across the Middle East as a journalist for Reuters, Al Jazeera, CNN, and other outlets. In an essay last year for The Markaz Review, he reflected on his years at Al Jazeera, where he covered every stage of Egypt’s revolution as few others have, and the shift that came with working for Western news desks. “Each edit taught me what kind of suffering was legible, what kind of death was allowed to matter,” he wrote. “The language of power had its own syntax and I was learning to write it. Objectivity was a disguise, a costume that power wore to be impartial.”
His poem “Style Guide,” published here in Hidden Cities for the first time, was shortlisted by the literary magazine A Public Space in its 2025 Open Call.
I first met Adam in Cairo in…
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