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Politics and Popular Poetry in the Arab World

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Alumni Weekend
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Professor Clive Holes gives a short talk on Arabic popular poetry; a medium of social satire and cultural criticism that is as important in Arabic culture as much as Social satire is in British culture. He also reads three translations of political poetry

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Series
Alumni Weekend
People
Clive Holes
Keywords
humanities
Egyptian
Satire
poetry
Iraqi
Jordanian
Arabic
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 29/04/2009
Duration: 00:12:06

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