ARABIC-L: LIT: Arab poets discussion

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Date: 04 Feb 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: Arab poets discussion

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>  Date: 28 Jan 1999
>  From: "Chouairi, R. MR           DFL" <GR6548 at exmail.usma.army.mil>
>  Subject: Arab poets response
>
>  Dear Friend
>  Saiid Akl live now in Beirut in his appartment in the Badaro
>  neighborhood.   I saw him last year and we spoke at length about many
>  topics.   He is teaching a class at a University and writing for
>  Al-SafIr.  We spoke about many topics mainely the differences between
>  his style in prose and the styles of Ameen al-Reehani and Saiid Taqi al
>  Deen 2 people that we both immensely admire.
>
>  				Rajaa Chouairi
>  			               Abu Fouad


Does Said Akl really admire Saeed Taqyyi'eddin? You probably know
more than me. Taqiyyi'eddin has no respect for the Lebanese right
wing, starting with Camille Shamoun (whom Taqyyi'eddin would only
greet while wearing his "Kalsoun" underwear) and ending, maybe, with
Akle who, unlike Taqiyyi'eddin who believes that his roots are  from
the Fertile Crescent (Greater Syria), while Akle believes in Lebanon
as a Nation of Phoenicians not Arabs, nor Syrians. Akle went as far
as creating his own Lebanese Language that was embraced by the
Lebanese right wing at the time.

Writing for Alsafeer shows how times change and how money talks. I
always admired Akle and disagreed for what he stood for, but I love
Taqiyyi'eddin, who is more down to earth and a real person. Do you
notice while reading Taqiyyi'edeen, you'd have a smile on your face?

Despite all of that, one cannot deny that Said Akle is of the greatest
Lebanese writers/poets that ever lived. Did he get to comb his hair yet,
he must be getting old :-)


George N. Hallak

http://aramedia.com

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