Literature Of Modern Arabia

by JAYYUSI

• ISBN13: 9780710302618
• ISBN10: 0710302614
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1988-01-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This authoritative volume offers the best selections of ninety-four leading poets, dramatists, and short story writers, with selections from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, and Kuwait.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Salma K. Jayyusi
Introduction
Shukry M. Ayyad
POETRY
Two Springs of Basil	41	(2)
Khadija al-Amri
Complaint	43	(2)
Fahd al-Askar
The Prologue	45	(3)
Abd al-Kareem al-Auda
Figs and Sycamore	48	(3)
Muhammad Hasan Awwad
Time's Spindle	51	(1)
The Road's Bend	52	(1)
Abd al-Ilah al-Babtain
I Search Sorrow...Happiness Conceals You	53	(3)
End of Death	56	(1)
Abdallah al-Baraduni
The Kindness of the Enemy	57	(1)
Between Two Voids	58	(1)
Between the Knife and the Killer	59	(1)
Answers to One Question	60	(1)
Treachery of Words	60	(1)
Longing	61	(1)
They Ask You	62	(3)
Ali al-Dumaini
Cedar and Olives	65	(3)
Muhammad al-Dumaini
Identity Card	68	(1)
Abd al-Rahman Fakhri
A Favourite Habit	69	(1)
From `The Myth of Immortality'	70	(5)
Muhammad Hasan Faqi
Zero	75	(1)
Muhammad al-Fayiz
A Sailor's Memoirs (Excerpts from the First Memoir)	76	(2)
A Sailor's Memoirs (Excerpts from the Twentieth Memoir)	78	(2)
Doubts	80	(1)
Abdallah al-Faysal
Love's Wounds	81	(1)
Reproach	82	(2)
Being	84	(1)
Sulaiman al-Fulayyih
Women	84	(1)
A Pony for the Tribe	85	(2)
Clouds	87	(1)
Love and Black Harbours	88	(4)
Ghazi al-Gosaibi
First Harbour	89	(1)
Second Harbour	89	(1)
Third Harbour	90	(1)
Epilogue	91	(1)
Little Thoughts	92	(1)
Song in a Tropical Night	93	(2)
Your Loving	95	(2)
The Sea has its Transformations...Make Way	97	(2)
Qasim Haddad
Dominion	99	(1)
The Children	100	(1)
Two Lines	100	(1)
I Do Not Bow	101	(1)
Happily He Entered Death	101	(2)
The Rider	103	(1)
Fountain	104	(1)
Ibrahim al-Hadrani
Beauty	105	(1)
The Streets of Rome	105	(2)
Drinking from Her Eyes	107	(2)
Muhammad Jabr al-Harbi
Hufuf	109	(6)
Bedouin Lament at the Gates of the Equator	115	(4)
Muhammad Ubaid al-Harbi
Bird and Wind	115	(1)
Song of the Slain	116	(1)
Tattoo of the World and the Heart	117	(1)
Song of Southern Anxiety	117	(2)
A Poet's Confession	119	(1)
Saad al-Humaidin
What is Left for Me?	120	(2)
On the Road to Jerusalem	122	(1)
Abd al-Rahman Ibrahim
Rebellion	123	(2)
Muhammad Fahd al-Issa
The Bursting out of Summer	125	(2)
Abdallah Muhammad Jabr
Space and the Goblet	127	(1)
Muhammad Saeed Jarada
Trivialities	127	(2)
Identity for a Prophetic Body	129	(5)
Junaid Muhammad Junaid
Poem	134	(1)
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
Departure	134	(1)
A Pearl	135	(1)
Distances of Longing	136	(1)
My Friends	136	(1)
Butterflies	137	(1)
My Grandfather Attends the General Assembly	137	(1)
The Lost Mirage	138	(1)
Ahmad Muhammad
My Mother's Grave	139	(1)
Al Khalifa
The Deserted Valley	139	(2)
A Window for Longing	141	(1)
Ali Abdallah Khalifa
Sorrow of Laila: Tuful	142	(2)
Schizophrenia	144	(1)
Dhabya Khamees
Don't!	144	(1)
A Truth	145	(1)
Happy New Year!	145	(1)
Love Poems in Times of War	146	(1)
In My Ribs the Orchard Grows	147	(1)
The Poet Dies	148	(1)
Very Much Alone	149	(2)
Hamda Khamees
About Love and the Impossible	151	(3)
The Book of Dream and Revolution	154	(2)
Hasan al-Lawzi
Creating Words between Two Ages	156	(2)
Lament	158	(1)
Abd al-Aziz al-Maqalih
Beirut, Tel al-Zaatar, Night and Bullets	159	(2)
From `Yemeni Thoughts'	161	(4)
Sanaa is Hungry	161	(1)
Melancholy	162	(1)
Season of Sleep	163	(1)
Fear	163	(2)
Death in Life	165	(1)
Ahmad Qandeel
The Poet and the Moth	166	(2)
Cycle	168	(3)
Maysun Saqr al-Qasimi
A Poet's Prayer	171	(1)
Hasan Abdallah al-Qurashi
The Fleeing Phantoms of Humiliation	172	(1)
The Altar of Love	173	(2)
Voice and Echo	175	(2)
Abd al-Rahman
Muhammad Rafee
Blooming Tree of Suicide	177	(1)
Sayf al-Rahabi
A Pencil and a Noose	178	(1)
Far, Far Away...Over the Hills of the Corpse	179	(3)
The Exile's Return	182	(1)
Muhammad Hashim Rasheed
The Need for a Second Heaven and an an Additional Hell	183	(2)
Abd al-Kareem al-Razihi
A New Definition of the Third World	185	(1)
Suad al-Mubarak al-Sabah
A Thousand Times More Beautiful	185	(1)
A Covenant	186	(1)
Sojourn Forever	187	(1)
Free Harbour	188	(1)
You Alone	188	(1)
Regret	189	(2)
Ali al-Sabti
Dismounting from the Dream-Saddle	191	(2)
Abdallah al-Saikhan
Fiddah Learns to Draw	193	(5)
How Fear Dies	198	(2)
Ahmad Salih al-Salih
The Sniper	200	(3)
Habeeb al-Sayigh
Dancing before the Queen	203	(2)
Shawqi Shafeeq
The Body, the Joy	205	(2)
Blind Minutes	207	(1)
Ahmad al-Shami
Defeat	208	(1)
Presence	209	(1)
Ali al-Sharqawi
What Keeps the Innocent Wakeful?	210	(4)
Warmth of Blood	214	(1)
Night and the Poet	215	(3)
Hamza Shihata
From the Road	218	(3)
Muhammad al-Shurafi
On Time	221	(1)
Husain Sirhan
The Last Worm	222	(3)
A Page from a Bedouin Notebook	225	(1)
Muhammad al-Thubaiti
I Spelled out Dream I Spelled out Illusion	226	(3)
The Year that has Ended	229	(1)
Ahmad al-Mushari al-Udwani
Waiting	230	(1)
A Tale	230	(1)
Song of Departure	231	(2)
Why	233	(1)
Ibrahim al-Urayyid
Fragrance	234	(2)
Sterility	236	(2)
Abdu Uthman
Prayer to the Beloved	238	(2)
Ismail al-Warith
Presence in the Sacrificial Alphabet	240	(4)
Tattered Sails	244	(1)
Khalifa al-Wugayyan
Estrangement	245	(1)
At the Door	246	(1)
Tahir Zamakhshari
Coquetry	247	(1)
My Son	248	(1)
Khalid Saud al-Zayd
The Stranger	249	(2)
Moments of Illumination	251	(4)
Muhammad Mahmoud al-Zubairi
FICTION
The Hazeen was Singing	255	(8)
Muhammad Abd al-Malik
What Came between Aneesa and Me	263	(12)
Mayfa Abd al-Rahman
Abu Rubbiya	275	(5)
Muhammad Abd al-Wali
Brother, Pay Up and Get Out!	280	(4)
The Palm Tree Said to the Sea...	284	(7)
Abd al-Hameed Ahmad
Khlalah SEL	291	(8)
The Bridge	299	(3)
Muhammad Alwan
Love and Rain	302	(5)
The Elevator	307	(3)
Abd al-Qadir Aqeel
The Succession	310	(8)
Saeed Aulaqi
Dancing by the Light of the Moon	318	(5)
Salih Saeed Ba-Amer
The Lake of Nothingness	323	(3)
Fawziyya al-Bakr
From Saqifat al-Safa	326	(11)
Hamza Bogary
The Journey	337	(28)
Zaid Mutee Dammaj
Scattered Voices	365	(3)
Khalil al-Fuzay
The Storm	368	(3)
An Ordinary Death	371	(2)
Muhammad Hasan al-Harbi
A Man of No Consequence	373	(5)
Kamal Haydar
The Imprint of Blackness	378	(7)
Muhammad Salih Haydara
The Nightingale's Triptych	385	(7)
Mansour al-Hazimi
The Arrival	392	(3)
Husain Ali Husain
The Song of the Hunted Man	395	(2)
4 + 1 = 1	397	(4)
Ismail Fahd Ismail
The Bird	401	(5)
Abdallah Ali Khalifa
Why Fattoum al-Ward Hit her Neighbour	406	(4)
Muhammad al-Murr
The Kiosk	410	(4)
Muhammad al-Muthanna
Disappointment	414	(5)
Ibrahim al-Nasir
The Final Ring	419	(4)
Abd al-Majeed al-Qadi
Drip Drip	423	(4)
Waleed al-Rujaib
The Butterflies	427	(3)
Amin Salih
The Bridge	430	(3)
Abdallah al-Salmi
Summer and Ashes	433	(7)
Coal and Cash	440	(5)
Khayriyya al-Saqqaf
The End of Old Amm Misfir	445	(11)
Zayn al-Saqqaf
Waiting	456	(2)
Muhammad Saeed Sayf
The Staircase	458	(6)
Ali Sayyar
The Dream	464	(2)
Ruqayya al-Shabeeb
A Secret and a Death	466	(4)
Sharifa al-Shamlan
The Voices of Night	470	(7)
Sulaiman al-Shatti
Auntie Kadarjan	477	(6)
Ahmad al-Sibaci
Pulling up Roots	483	(6)
Layla al-Uthman
Silence and the Walls	489	(5)
Sibaci Ahmad Uthman
The Mud (a Play)	494	(34)
Saqr al-Rushud
Glossary of Foreign Terms	528	(3)
Biographies of Authors	531	(21)
Biographies of Translators	552	(6)
Transliterated List of Arab Authors	558