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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Modern Arabic Poetry for HS level 1 classes</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">27 Nov 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ebtesam Mohammadi <<a href="mailto:ebtesam@aucegypt.edu" target="_blank">ebtesam@aucegypt.edu</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Modern Arabic Poetry for HS level 1 classes</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi Virginia,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am sorry my response is too late, I don't check this e-mail often.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I would suggest كتاب الحب for Nizar Qabbani, I use it a lot with my</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">beginning students:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://nizariat.com/poetry.php?id=105" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://nizariat.com/poetry.php?id=105</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Also, you may check لافتات for Ahamad Matar, both have very short poems</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">while Matar's is more political:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://www.al-hakawati.net/arabic/civilizations/diwanindex6a17.pdf" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.al-hakawati.net/arabic/civilizations/diwanindex6a17.pdf</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Also in this link:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.suzanne-alaywan.com/A_Presence_Called_Love.htm" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.suzanne-alaywan.com/A_Presence_Called_Love.htm</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Suzan Eliwan who is a contemporary writer combines her childish drawings</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and very short poems in a very creative way.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Most of her peotry which is available on her website</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.suzanne-alaywan.com/Poetry.htm" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.suzanne-alaywan.com/Poetry.htm</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> contain short poems which -I</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">would argue - reflect the unrest and confusion of teenagers in a very</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">bitter fragmented manner. I started reading he poetry in magazines for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">young writers when I was a teenager - and she was too - and it touched me</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">deeply.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hope this helps,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ebtissam Oraby</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
</div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">Date: </span>27 Nov 2013<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">From: </span>Irina Vainovski Mihai <<a href="mailto:ivainov2@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ivainov2@yahoo.com</a>><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">Subject: </span>Modern Arabic Poetry for HS level 1 classes<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">
</div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Virginia,<br>I would recommend you Nizar Qabbani’s volume entiled Qamus<br>
al-‘ashiqin. Some of the poems in the volume are very brief and have all the<br>other elements you are looking for. I am using these poems in the classes with<br>my first year students (who are AFL beginners).<br>Best regards,<br>
Irina<br> Irina Vainovski-Mihai, PhD<br>Associate Professor in Arab Studies<br>“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University<br>Bucharest<br>Romania<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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