Arabic Poetry and Terrorism: The Dictator Perishes and the Poet Remains

Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati is one of the most prominent twentieth-century Arab poets. His poetry makes a drastic shift from politically committed in the 1950s and 1960s to metapoetic in the 1970s onward. In his post-Nasserist works, al-Bayati interrogates the role of poets and the function of their poe...

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Main Author: Waed Athamneh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2018-03-01
Series:Arab Studies Quarterly
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/arabstudquar.40.2.0097