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Poetry and history: the value of poetry in reconstructing Arab history
Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History comprises a collection of papers presented at an international conference with the same title held on January 24-26, 2008, and sponsored by the American University of Beirut’s Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Chair of Islamic Studies of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic o...
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Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History comprises a collection of papers presented at an international conference with the same title held on January 24-26, 2008, and sponsored by the American University of Beirut’s Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Chair of Islamic Studies of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. The event was organized to better illuminate some aspects of the relationship between the fields of poetry and history. This volume, the first of its kind to be devoted to this theme, will prove to be a significant contribution to the field of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies.
The volume includes 16 articles by scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Lebanon. It is divided into 2 parts: the first dealing with classical and premodern poetry, and the second with modern and contemporary poetry, with 3 articles focusing on the work of the poet Mahmud Darwish.
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