Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.

Auteur
NOHA M. RADWAN Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at UC Davis, USA.

Contenu
Historically Speaking: Arabic Poetry and the Language of Speech Shi'r al-'AmmiyyaAnd Modernism in Arabic Poetry A Modernist in Traditional Garb A Sage in Fools' Clothing Among Cairenes