Author: William Tamplin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004372806
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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In Poet of Jordan, William Tamplin presents two decades’ worth of the political poetry of Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya, a Bedouin poet from Jordan, whose voice channels a popular strain of popular Arab political thought.
Author: Kobi Peled
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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The book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Kobi Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments, states of mind and worldviews.
Author: al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479825832
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable body of folk legend and is thought to have lived in the seventeenth century, in the area now called the Emirates. The tales included in Love, Death, Fame portray him as a witty, resourceful, scruffy poet, at times combative and at times kindhearted. His poetry primarily features verses of wisdom and romance, with scenes of clouds and rain, desert migrations, seafaring, and pearl diving. Like Arabian Romantic and Arabian Satire, this collection is a prime example of Nabaṭī poetry, combining vernacular language of the Arabian Peninsula with archaic vocabulary and images dating to Arabic poetry’s very origins. Distinguished by Ibn Ẓāhir’s unique voice, Love, Death, Fame offers a glimpse of what life was like four centuries ago in the region that is now the UAE. An English-only edition.
Author: Khalid A. Sulaiman
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9780862322380
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: Najwan Darwish
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590177304
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Nothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish’s poetry walks the razor’s edge between despair and resistance, between dark humor and harsh political realities. With incisive imagery and passionate lyricism, Darwish confronts themes of equality and justice while offering a radical, more inclusive, rewriting of what it means to be both Arab and Palestinian living in Jerusalem, his birthplace.
Author: ʻAbd Allāh Raḍwān
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Ṭāhā Muḥammad ʻAlī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Taha Muhammad Ali writes in a forceful and direct style, with disarming humor and unflinching, at times painful, honesty--the poetry's apparent simplicity and homespun truths concealing the subtle grafting of classical Arabic and colloquial forms of expression. In Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in Europe, audiences have been powerfully moved by Taha Muhammad Ali's poems of political complexity and humanity. Never Mind is the poet's first collection to appear in English. Introduction by Gabriel Levin. --Ibis Editions.
Author: Muḥammad ʻAfīfī Maṭar
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557284877
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Publisher: Darf Publishers Ltd.
ISBN: 1850773440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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Jabra’s debut novel, first published in 1955 and called by Edward Said “one of the principal successes of Arabic artistic prose and drama,” introduced stream of consciousness, flashback and interior monologue to the Arabic novel and set the stage for the outpouring of excellent modern Arabic prose in the decades that followed. In the first novel by the Palestinian author Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Amin Samaa walks the length of his native city on a portentous night. Amin is headed to the house of Inayat Yasser, an aristocratic heiress who has hired him to help her write a book on the history of her Ottoman family, now fallen on hard times. On his way there, Amin recalls his childhood in a nearby village and the city slum his family had to flee to after his father died. Old friends, thieves and madames attempt to waylay him. And the haunting atmosphere of the city gives rise to memories of Amin’s wife Sumaya, whose sudden disappearance two years before has left him at a loss. Sumaya’s sudden reappearance forces Amin into a decision that will change his life forever. In a novel written just two years before the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, the events and characters lead to a momentous conclusion. Jabra brought modernist techniques into modern Arabic literature: the reminiscences of D. H. Lawrence, the introspective wanderer of James Joyce, and the acerbic wit and country-house feel of early Aldous Huxley. This classic of Arabic literature is not to be missed.
Author: Ai (皚)
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781389236389
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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A free verse narrative poetic tale of the real events that took place during the poet's visit to the ancient ruin city of Umm Al-Jamal. The sexual violation attempt that is described in the poem led to the assailant's identification and confession along with his subsequent incarceration for at least one year in the municipal jail of Mafraq, Jordan. In her poetic narrative, the poet expresses her views and emotions concerning the events, while also reflecting on the issues of relevance more generally from the perspective of women's and human rights.
