Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Adab #5 6/04

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Date: 16 Jun 2004
From:kidriss at cyberia.net.lb
Subject:Al-Adab #5 6/04


Poetic Modernity in Iran; Towards Total Resistance;
  Joel Beinin Interviewed; US Hegemony on Latin America;
  Is it their Heritage or Ours?

  (See purchase information below)

File
Al-Adab’s new issue (5/6, 2004) features the first comprehensive Arab  
exploration of modern Iranian poetry. This 48-page-file, prepared by an  
Iranian scholar and translator, Dr. Musa Aswar, contains four original  
articles written specifically for al-Adab on modern Iranian poetry, as  
well as scores of poems and testimonies by symbols of the leading  
poetic movement in Iran. As such, this file should not only interest  
students of Arabic poetics (where similar issues pertaining to meter,  
usage of language, and socio-political commitment are raised), but also  
those who believe in the true essence of “dialogue of cultures” beyond  
its current imperial hegemonic mask. Contributors are: Muhammad  
Huqouqi, Ahmad Sami’i (Kilani), Husein Ma’soumi Hamadani, Nima Youshij,  
Ahmad Shamlu, Mahdi Akhawan Thalith, Furugh Farrukhzad, Suhrab Sipihri,  
Manushahr Atashi, Nader Naderpur, Mahmud Mushrif Azad Tehrani, Ahmad  
Reza Ahmadi, Diya’ Muwahhid, and Muhammad Reza Shafi’I Kadkani  

Interview
Upon al-Adab’s request, 7 Arab scholars and journalists met in Morocco  
with the progressive American intellectual and activist Prof. Joel  
Beinin (from Stanford University) to ask him about the new American  
“initiative” entitled “The Big Middle East Project” currently discussed  
by the G8.  A long and creative dialogue ensues, where Beinin traces  
certain roots of US aggression back to its educational system, and  
calls for an international solidarity front against imperialism and  
zionism.

Articles
M.I.T. professor of Islamic architecture, Nasser Rabbat, discusses  
classicism in contemporary Arab historical discourse and calls for a  
comprehensive and non-exclusionist vision of Culture (specifically  
architecture) that goes beyond Euro-centrism and the ahisorical  
third-world-nationalisms (such as vulgar Ba’thism).

  Following a series of articles published in previous issues of al-Adab  
on social progressive movements in Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia,  
Shafiq Asal, a Palestinian writer and internationalist activist, writes  
about the dangers of FTAA (Free Trade Area for the Americas) on the  
economy of Latin America.

  Al-Adab’s editor-in-chief, Samah Idriss, tries to pave the way towards  
an Arab discourse on Total Resistance that encompasses resistance to  
all forms of injustice.  Such forms include armed struggle against  
occupation, boycotting of companies that support zionism and US/British  
occupation in Iraq, cooperating with anti-imperialist forces worldwide,  
and formulating a new vision of Arabism that is both democratic and  
militant.

Poems & Stories
As usual, al-Adab contains many short stories. This issue features  
beautiful stories by Fadwa al-Qasem (UAE), Hader al-Hout (Lebanon),  
al-Mannoubi Zayyoud (Tunis), and Rita Odeh (Palestine).

Discussions
In defense of the “General Coordinator” of the Iraqi National  
Democratic Current Mr. Abd al-Amir al-Rikabi, and in defense of  the  
“internationalist leftist [Israeli] militant Mikhail Warchawski,” the  
Iraqi writer and journalist Ala’ al-Lami replies to Hisham al-Bustani’s  
article published in al-Adab’s previous issue.

To the Editor
  Finally, Omar Barghouti closes with a moving back-cover article  
entitled: “They Fear Us: Therefore we have not Died!”

PURCHASE INFORMATION:
  This issue is available for $10 and can be ordered from  
<kidriss at cyberia.net.lb>.


Subscribe to Al-Adab, at reasonably low rates ($30+ postage), and keep  
the magazine going!


  For more information, see: www.adabmag.com

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